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[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's interesting that this was published in The Irish Journal of Medical Science, the official organ of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland. I wonder how many other scientific publications it was submitted to.

The one scientific paper this letter makes reference to said that the genetic disease cystic fibrosis manifests, has a different trajectory and a different age of mortality depending on CF patients' sex.

My hunch is that this particular journal chose to publish this letter because persons of ethnic Irish heritage have the highest rates of cystic fibrosis in the world. And coz the fact that CF affects males and females differently has been observed and an "open secret" amongst CF physicians and families since the disease was first identified in the 1950s and more widely investigated in the 60s and 70s.