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Researchers identify key mechanism behind atherosclerosis in Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome
• Oct. 8, 2024, 1:15 AM ET (News-Medical)
Survivor of rare rapid-ageing disease progeria dies at 28
• Oct. 6, 2024, 12:07 AM ET (Reuters)
progeria, any of several rare human disorders associated with premature aging. The two major types of progeria are Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), which has its onset in early childhood, and Werner syndrome (adult progeria), which occurs later in life. A third condition, Hallerman-Streiff-François syndrome, is characterized by the presence of progeria in combination with dwarfism and other features of abnormal growth. Progeria is extremely rare; for example, the global incidence of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome is approximately one in every four to eight million births. Signs of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome appear at about age one, after an evidently normal infancy. Affected ...(100 of 464 words)