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London Bridges Walk – Friday 8th July 2011

 

This year Otsuka Pharmaceuticals (UK) Ltd will hold a charity event to raise money for PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease – see web link below) in which everyone from head office will participate in an amazing and challenging walk. The walk will cover a route which will take us over all of London’s most famous bridges between Westminster Bridge and Tower Bridge. 

The route is approximately 7 miles long. We’re sure we’ll all come away with a real sense of achievement and some fantastic memories of the day, helping to raise as much money as possible for a very worthy cause!!



So please dig deep and donate now.



PKD is an abbreviation for POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE, an inherited range of diseases which are a common cause of kidney failure.
PKD is present in two forms:

ADPKD - AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE, the world’s most common inherited life-threatening condition, in which fluid-filled cysts develop in both kidneys. Between 1 in 800 and 1 in 1000 people worldwide suffer from ADPKD. Over half of those affected will have kidney failure by the time they are 60 years old. If someone has ADPKD, there is a 50% likelihood that the disease will pass to each child.

ARPKD - AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE occurs in children and results in enlarged kidneys with or without cysts, liver enlargement and often high blood pressure.  In ARPKD, sadly, 30% to 50% of ARPKD infants die at birth or shortly thereafter, primarily as the result of underdeveloped lungs.

http://www.pkdcharity.org.uk/index.html