Health Trajectories in People with Cystic Fibrosis in the UK: Exploring the Effect of Social Deprivation

Exploring the reasons for inequalities in outcomes in people with cystic fibrosis (CF) offers a unique opportunity to develop our understanding around pathways in inequalities in health more generally. Because CF is genetically determined, a socio-economic difference in incidence is not expected, but there may be important differences in outcomes over the course of people’s lives