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Published on: 6/17/2008
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"This disease is in many ways like diabetes," said Dr. Howard M. Lederman, professor of pediatrics and director of the Immunodeficiency Clinic at Johns Hopkins Children's Center."There are people who develop diabetes in infancy, there are people who develop diabetes in adolescence and there are people who don't get it until they're 60.
"People probably have some genetic susceptibility to develop CVID, but if you don't run into the right infection or you don't have some other change in your body, you don't develop immunodeficiency," he said.
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"The delay in diagnosis is not because it's difficult to diagnose but because people don't think about it," Lederman said.
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"They do as well or better as people in the same age group with normal immune systems," Lederman said.