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Can you tell me which ages do alpha-1 antitrypsin deficency effect?
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Any: Shortness of breath usually develops from the lung disease in the 40's. The liver disease can show up at any age from infancy to later middle age, or never. Nobody knows why.
Answered 1/19/2014
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