World Arthritis Day 2025

✨ Achieve your dreams — together.

🤔 Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) are invisible diseases affecting over 120 million people in Europe across all age groups.

Despite being the leading cause of physical disability and accounting for more than 50% of all Years Lived with Disabilities, RMDs are still widely under-recognised and under-addressed across Europe and beyond.

🧬 At the ENDOTARGET EU Project, we believe in the power of dreams — the personal hopes and goals that drive people living with RMDs to push forward every day. Whether it’s the dream of less pain, better mobility, or simply the freedom to live fully ➡️ these dreams deserve to be heard, supported, and realised.

🔎 That’s why our research is focused on understanding chronic inflammation, the gut-joint axis, and metabolic endotoxemia, to develop personalised prevention strategies that bring us closer to a future where RMDs no longer hold people back.

💭 This World Arthritis Day, we stand with all those affected by RMDs and invite you to join the movement by the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology 👉 https://www.eular.org/world-arthritis-day-2025

What is your RMDream? Let us know in the comments 👇

#WorldArthritisDay #WAD2025 #RMDreams #ENDOTARGET #ChronicInflammation #JointHealth #AutoimmuneDisease #ArthritisAwareness #EULAR #InvisibleIllness

Project Coordinator Team

Helsinki University Hospital (HUS)
Helsinki, Finland

ENDOTARGET Project Coordinator

Kari Eklund
kari.eklund@hus.fi

ENDOTARGET Deputy Project Coordinator

Gonçalo Barreto
goncalo.barreto@helsinki.fi

ENDOTARGET Project Manager

Ana Valkama
ana.valkama@hus.fi

Communication & Dissemination Leader

Steinbeis Europa Zentrum (SEZ)
Stuttgart, Germany

Lena Schleicher
lena.schleicher@steinbeis-europa.de

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