2000 people per year lose their lives from aortic dissection in the UK.

The Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust is the UK and Ireland charity uniting patients, families and the medical community in a shared goal of improving diagnosis, increasing survival and reducing disability due to aortic dissection.

This charity is very close to my heart as I lost my Dad to an aortic rupture. If his aortic dissection had been diagnosed earlier we could have prevented this tragic loss. However, with the knowledge I have learnt through this charity I hope to help other individuals and families in the hope that they don’t go through what we did.

Education and raising awareness around this is vital to helping others! And I hope to help people along the way as well as raising money for a charity who are doing such amazing things!