Horse Riding Contest for the Benefit of Cystic Fibrosis

• 9 September 2014
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The Open Sports Club has organized an equestrian jumping competition on 13 and 14 September in order to raise funds for cystic fibrosis research. The initiative came from the mother of a girl affected by this disease and who is being treated in the Cystic Fibrosis Unit of Sabadell Hospital.

The money raised in this charity contest of theOpen Sports Club, located in El Prat de Llobregat, will go to the Fundació Parc Taulí to launch a research study that aims to reduce respiratory infections that very often affect these patients. The study will be carried out by professionals from the Cystic Fibrosis Unit of Sabadell Hospital.

The initiative to carry out this charitable activity is from the mother of a three-year-old patient affected by the disease and who visits the Cystic Fibrosis Unit at Parc Taulí. With this contest, in which the members of the Open Sports Club and the Catalan Equestrian Federation, hope to raise funds to launch the study and boost research on CF. The club's facilities will be open to the general public, who will be able to attend the competition free of charge. Various activities are planned with the collaboration of sponsors, as well as the sale of tickets for the draw of interesting prizes, at a price of 5 €.

Cystic fibrosis is the most common inherited genetic disease in Catalonia

Cystic fibrosis is the most common inherited genetic disease in Catalonia that severely and progressively affects the respiratory, digestive and reproductive systems of people who suffer from it. Screening tests carried out on all infants in Catalonia since the end of 1998 have determined that it affects one in 5.000 babies. CF does not have a curative treatment, although much progress has been made in recent years, and the path to finding it is getting closer every day. Genetic research has identified the altered gene. Gene therapy is one of the most promising avenues of treatment, but there are others such as pharmacological, transplantation and other possibilities in which doctors and researchers work.

Sabadell Hospital is one of the three reference centers in Catalonia for the treatment of people affected by CF, together with the Vall d'Hebron Children's Hospital in Barcelona, ​​and the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Esplugues of Llobregat. In Sabadell, 150 affected people are currently being monitored, aged between 4 months and 60 years. In the last year, 4 new cases have been diagnosed at this center using neonatal screening.

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