Family-building and parenting considerations for people with cystic fibrosis.

In one study conducted using the French CF registry among 48 men with moderate disease, fathers had a nonsignificant trend toward increased outpatient care center visits, but they did not experience clinical deterioration in lung function or BMI in the 3 years following paternity compared to matched men with CF who did not become fathers. 123 In contrast, Bianco and colleagues recently evaluated health outcomes in fathers in the United Kingdom with moderate disease and found a statistically significant decline in weight and a trend toward a decline in lung function in the first 12 months of fatherhood.

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