The Royal Free Hospital Kidney Patients Association is being represented by 13 runners who are taking part in THE BRITISH 10K LONDON RUN on SUNDAY July 8th 2012 to raise money for Royal Free Hospital kidney patients. The RFHKPA does a lot of great work supporting renal patients.

Our 13 “brave” competitors will take to the streets of London and run along with 20,000 other competitors. Our team is made up of renal dietitians Jan Flint and Sinead Burke, Edgware Clinic dialysis nurses, Raymund Velez (running for the second year) and Ana Cardoso, transplant sisters Nadia Godigamuwe (running for the umpteenth time) along with Ewa Frackiewicz, renal doctors Alan Salama and Scott Henderson, transplant patients Paul Dadomo, Gavin Kelsey, Karlos Kleanthous and Stuart Penn.

 So please dig deep and donate now.

 Please join us in supporting Royal Free Hospital Kidney Patients Association and a fabulous cause. RFHKPA is a registered charity no.277711.

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Our kidneys are vital and sophisticated organs.

They filter and clean 200 litres of blood per day. They remove wasters and excess water from our blood in the form of urine.  

They help balance the levels of chemical substances in our bodies such as sodium, phosphorus and potassium. They also produce important hormones that stimulate bone marrow to make red blood cells; regulate our blood pressure; help keep our bones strong.

High blood pressure and diabetes are the main causes of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).

500 million individuals worldwide are affected. If CKD worsens it can lead to kidney failure. In order to survive, people with severe kidney failure must either receive a transplanted kidney or be kept alive with dialysis, usually by a machine which cleans their blood about three times a week, each session lasting 4-5 hours. 

A greater risk than kidney failure is that people with CKD may develop Cardiovascular diseases. People with CKD are 10 times more likely than healthy people, to die of heart attacks and strokes.

One out of 10 adults in the world has some form of kidney damage