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A1AD

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A1ADAlpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (aka AAT deficiency)


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The 50-year-old pop superstar - who has previously been photographed looking frail in a wheelchair - is said to be battling inherited condition A1AD (alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency) which leaves sufferers without a protein needed to protect the lungs.
Julie was told she had the genetic lung condition A1AD, which would have caused COPD in old age anyway, but smoking had Brought it on decades earlier.
Her offspring could well soon be producing in their milk the missing chemical that sufferers from A1AD need.
 
 
 
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