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Apr. 22, 2024, 11:37 PM ET (Medical Xpress)
Spanish scientists identify the key cell type for strategies to prevent atherosclerosis in progeria syndrome
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)