The association invited to share on social networks a photo making the symbolic gesture of L with the right hand and also wants to be trending topic on March 31 at 20:25 pm
The Association of Relatives and Affected lipodystrophy (AELIP) has launched a campaign on social networks to gather as many of supports to people with these diseases and claiming the need for research in this area, to mark the World Day lipodystrophy, which falls on March 31.
To do this, from AELIP are encouraged to anyone who wants to support this campaign to raise social networks (facebook, twitter or instagram) via the hashtag # L-researched, a photograph making the gesture of L with the right hand .
Moreover, precisely for this has created an event on Facebook to join him all these expressions of solidarity (https://www.facebook.com/events/1413751338927733/).
Currently, there are already many people who have joined, including many familiar faces, who wanted to show their solidarity with those affected with this simple and symbolic gesture.
In parallel, the target to beat is to become trending topic on twitter precisely on March 31 at 20:25, so you are encouraged to collaborate with this solidarity and visibility initiative at that time.
The president of AELIP, Naca Perez de Tudela, said that research is the main weapon to give hope and a future for people with some kind of lipodystrophy and therefore from this association claimed to support research lines to study how improve the quality of life of those affected and their health.
In this sense he highlighted that these expressions of support aims to give a boost to research already undertaken since research team led by Dr. David Araújo in Santiago de Compostela.
Also, the president of AELIP wanted to show gratitude to the person who has devised gesture L of the campaign, the physiotherapist Guadalupe Alvarez, for having managed to condense in this symbolic gesture the need for further research.
Lipodystrophies are a group of diseases characterized by loss of fat tissue and are very rare and extremely rare, which means they are difficult to diagnose properly and therefore adequately and efficiently treat.
Living fat is a predisposition to a group of diseases such as diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia (usually hypertriglyceridemia) and cardiovascular diseases, among many others.
On March 31, World Day of lipodystrophy, has become the reference date to join forces with him the awareness and public awareness to make visible these pathologies.
From AELIP the invitation to reiterate that anyone who wants to share their L on social networks, so that everyone is united by researching lipodystrophies # L-investigated.
Moreover, it also recalls that AELIP has opened two numbers account for anyone who wants to collaborate making any financial contribution for research in lipodystrophy.
These account numbers are 3058 0262 44 2720029059 (in CAJAMAR entity) and 2100 2759 23 0200101469 (La Caixa).
