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DID YOU KNOW...
Based upon an estimated 5% incidence of brain aneurysms in the general population, 12,500,000 Americans have a brain aneurysm. Rupture brain aneurysm causes more than 15,000 deaths annually!
Based upon an estimated 0.01% incidence of brain AVMs in the general population, 250,000 Americans have an AVM. Approximately 2% of all strokes are cause by ruptured AVMs!
Based upon an estimated 3.2% incidence of aortic aneurysms in the general population, 8 million Americans have an aortic aneursym with more than 15,000 - 20,000 deaths annually
Aneurysm research could significantly reduce these devastating statistics.
Gifted, productive researchers are being forced to stop aneurysm research because of the lack of funds.
Federal funding for aneurysm research is virtually non-existent.
Aneurysm related deaths equal, or exceed the annual frequency of AIDS associated deaths, but receive infinitely less research funding.
A search of CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) for any year, reveals gross disparities between federal funding for aneurysms/AVM research and other less life threatening conditions.
WHAT CAN I DO?
Let your voice be heard. Write Congressional Representitives asking them to support additional funding for aneurysm research. The following suggested letter may be copied and emailed to your Congressional Representatives.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Aneurysms and AVMs are insidiously silent killers of more than 45,000 Americans annually. Surviver of these insidious killers are often disabled and incapable of gainful enployment. Estimations of the frequency of aneurysms/AVM in the American population may be as high as 21,000,000. Nonetheless, NIH funding of aneurysm and AVM research appears to be of the lowest priority. I respectfully encourage you to consider supporting additional funding for aneurysm and AVM research projects.
Very Sincerely
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