Huntington s disease: Northern Scotland diagnoses soar 50%
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Huntington s cases up almost 50% in 30 years in northern Scotland, study finds
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For all of his life Sandy Patience has watched family and loved ones taken from him slowly by Huntington’s Disease.
The genetic condition has no known cure and has a 50% chance of being passed from parents to children – but now the 58-year-old is helping to try and change that.
Sandy, who is originally from the Black Isle but now lives in Inverness, has spent his entire life watching loved ones slip away before being diagnosed himself in 2017.
Last year he lost his sister Helen to the condition, which causes parts of the brain to gradually stop working causing problems speaking, walking and swallowing.