May 9, 2007 5:25 am US/Mountain
Walk-A-Thon Will Help Genetic Disorder Patients
Prepared for the Web by CBS4 Producer Raetta Holdman
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Rockies manager Clint Hurdle with Madison, his daughter who has Prader-Willi Syndrome.
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Students at Kent Denver School are putting their best feet forward as the school hosts a 1.5 mile walk-a-thon for Prader-Willi Syndrome.
Prader-Willi affects about one child in 20,000. It is a genetic disorder which causes mental retardation and prevents the brain from recognizing appetite normally.
That means many people with Prader-Willi may become morbidly obese.
Madison Hurdle, daughter of Colorado Rockies manager Clint Hurdle, has the syndrome. He is scheduled to be the official starter for the walk on Saturday.
"The diagnosis is critical, the earlier the better," Hurdle told CBS4 Health Specialist Suzanne McCarroll in May 2006 for a Rockies education push about Prader-Willi.
"For Maddy to be diagnosed as quickly as she was, was a huge advantage."
Parents of children with Prader-Willi hope research will give their sons and daughters a better chance at a normal life.
"I see a daughter who needs to be loved, who wants her daddy's attention, who wants to be read to, who wants to go swimming."
Registration starts at 10:30 a.m. at Kent Denver, which is located at 4000 E. Quincy in Englewood. The walk begins at 11 a.m. and lunch is served at noon.
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