Club Council 5 pm : Weekly fellowship meeting and speaker: Phil Godfrey (RC Solihull) : Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Mon, Jan 6th 2020 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Not a formal partners' evening but all welcome of course.
At Truro Cathedral restaurant 6.00 for 6.30 pm
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Phil Godfrey is an Ambassador for APS Support UK, who has spent 2018/19 travelling around the British Isles, and spoken at some 114 Rotary & Inner Wheel Clubs, in order to spread awareness of APS (Antiphospholipid Syndrome). The Rotary General Council (Feb 2018) approved to this initiative, and Phil has so far raised £108,000 to improve knowledge of the disease that killed his wife four years ago. (See Rotary magazine, Dec/Jan 2020).
Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is an autoimmune disease which affects the blood and its ability to clot. An overactive immune system produces antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) which cause the blood to clot too quickly both in veins and arteries.
The clotting can affect any vein, artery or organ in the body and the consequences can include potentially fatal conditions such as heart attacks, strokes, and DVTs. In pregnancy, the antibodies can cause miscarriage, pre-eclampsia, small babies, early deliveries and stillbirth.
As blood flows through the entire body, antiphospholipid syndrome can present a wide variety of symptoms, not all of them as serious as stroke or heart attack.
People from all ages, including children can have APS, but it tends to mainly affect the 20-50 year-old age group and women more so than men. One study has shown that 1 in 2000 people have the disorder, but it is still believed to be significantly under-recognised and under-diagnosed.
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