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Progeria
About Progeria
Children with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria age at up to ten times the normal rate. They die of heart attacks and strokes at an average age of 14. Sam Berns became a public face of living joyfully with the condition. The first drug treatment was approved in 2020.
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