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| FIRST DIALYSIS
PATIENT TO COMPLETE AN IRONMAN© TRIATHLON IS
BACK TO RACE 5 MORE TIMES IN 2005 |
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Tuesday,
January 25, 2005, (Saint Paul, MN): Shad Ireland
the first dialysis patient to compete in and complete
an Ironman© Triathlon last July in Lake Placid,
NY is back to inspire other chronically ill patients
and healthy people in general. An Ironman©
consists of a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride,
and a 26.2 mile run which needs to be completed
consecutively.
Of late he has developed and launched The Shad Ireland
Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated
to showing kidney dialysis patients the importance
of fitness to their well being, and how it can contribute
to giving them a more “normal” life.
Funds raised will be used to create fitness grants
for those dialysis patients who need assistance
to become more physically active. Shad states “I
believe that physical fitness and exercise is the
key which will unlock the door that provides a better
quality of life for dialysis patients and those
who suffer from chronic illness.”
Shad was diagnosed with Kidney Disease at the age
of 10 and has had two unsuccessful kidney transplants.
He is now 32 years old and remains on dialysis three
times a week for four hours per day.
The United States Renal Data System is predicting
that the number of individuals on dialysis in the
U.S. will hit 520,000 by the year 2010, doubling
the number of patients receiving treatment at the
end of 2000. In addition, according to the international
patient registries compiled by the USRDS, there
were approximately 450,000 dialysis patients in
Europe and Japan in 1999. Reimbursement for dialysis
treatments in the United States in 1999 is estimated
to have exceeded $5 billion.
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