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A year after the Foundation for Program Research (PRF) has announced the launch of the campaign to find the other 150 “were located 31% of new cases of program, a genetic condition characterized by premature aging children.

It is an international awareness campaign was developed in collaboration between the Foundation for Research on Program and GLOBALHealthPR; the international network of independent public relations world is largest in the health sector, represented by Paradigm Argentina Peel Communication.

In October 2009, 54 known cases of program children in 30 countries, but scientists believe that a statistically there are approximately 150 children who have not yet been identified.

Program, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome is a rare, fatal genetic condition characterized by the appearance of premature and accelerated aging in children.

The symptoms of this condition include poor growth, loss of body fat and hair, aged-looking skin, joint pain, hip dislocation, generalized atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. A child with program usually dies because of heart problems, like millions of older people.

Finding a cure may therefore be the key to preventing and treating these and other problems associated with natural aging process. PRF is the only nonprofit organization dedicated solely to finding treatments and a cure for program.

In just 12 months the campaign to find the other 150 “achieved the following results:

* we identified 17 children from 12 countries, 5 continents now know that there are children with program.

* In total 71 children know they have this disease worldwide, a 31% increase over the previous year.

“When we launched the campaign, commented that finding even one child and was successful,” said Audrey Gordon, president and CEO of PRF. Gordon said “this success is the result of a global partnership.”

“We now know that thanks to our perseverance, we can find even more children with program to offer treatments that will change your life and connect with local medical professionals and other families living in the same situation,” he added.

The Foundation for Program Research will continue its work of awareness of the disease in order to achieve more and better results through:

* Media coverage to gain greater knowledge about this disease in parts of the world where there is still no case was identified, such as Russia and China.

* Inform the media and the experts and family through pictures of children with program and explanations of this disease.

* Promote the use of tools such as Face book and Twitter by the media, doctors and families so they can follow the latest developments in research of PRF and find information about program.

“There is a close correlation between the role of the media and the identification of new cases, as happened in Brazil, where the number of children rose from 1 to 7 with the media disseminated information about nationwide “said Gordon.

The Foundation for Program Research (PRF) was established in 1999 to try to find the cause, treatment and cure for program, a premature aging disease that causes the death of children who suffer from heart attacks or stroke at 13 years of middle age. In the past ten years, research carried out in conjunction with the PRF identified the gene that causes program and to the discovery of a possible treatment for children who suffer.

A team of scientists from University College London, the National Institute for Health and Medical Research in France, and the University of Montpellier, in France analyzed the relationship between the form of food and the chance of depression.

More precisely, the association between a healthy diet and balanced and to prevent the development of this highly complex disorder that affects not only the social life of sufferers, but also “installed” in both the psyche and the body of those affected.

“Most previous work on the topic focused on the action to have certain nutrients on depression, while we take and look at food as a whole,” the investigators said the 3,486 people involved, whose average age was 57 years.

That group was divided over the five-year long investigation into two smaller biases. On the one hand, the people who ate healthy, fruits, vegetables, vegetables and fish, and those who preferred other processed foods, sugars, fried foods and dairy fat.

“We developed a questionnaire designed to assess potential alterations in mood, and established that people who chose to processed foods were 58% more likely to develop depression, compared with those following a healthy diet,” they added scientists.

“We are extremely pleased that we found a very consistent pattern of relationship between the way of feeding and the possibility of developing depression. However, further studies will be necessary to confirm definitively,” they stated.

“To which we must be very aware of is the so-called ‘masked depression’ that occurs when the mood alteration not expressed through physical symptoms such as sadness, but from physiological changes, completed the specialist.

On the other hand it is noteworthy that depression is a state of sadness or distress passenger, but a deeper problem that usually do not conform to a single cause, but many. In fact, it is assumed that the development of this disorder is due to a combination of psychological, genetic and biochemical.

Your symptoms may also vary because contrary to what many people think being depressed is not about always and inevitably to be drawn all day in bed.

Those with the disorder through various stages or moments in which usually takes possession of them has marked irritability, a deep interest in activities that used to enjoy and a great pessimism.