Who has Marfan's?
- Effects 1 in 5000
- Can effect anyone regardless of gender, race, or ethic group
- 3 in 4 people inherit the disorder, the other 1 is caused by a genetic mutation
- There is a 50% chance someone with Marfan's will pass it down to their children
Famous people with Marfan's
- Isaiah Austin: basketball star who was going to the first round draft of the NBA till his diagnosis in 2014
- Michael Phelps: most decorated olympian of all time with 22 medals and competed in his first olympicas at age 15
- Bradford Cox: one of the best musicians of all time; wrote Deerhunter
- Bin Laden: former leader of the Taliban; it's never been proven that he had Marfan's, but he had all the visible symptoms
- Abraham Lincoln: 16th president of the United States and one of the most famous peole with Marfan's
- Julius Cesar: responsible for the fall of the Roman empire
- Tutankhamen: 11th pharaoh of Egypt's 18th empire; CT scans and DNA tests comfirm that he suffered from Marfan's