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Progeria (Hutchinson-Gilford Syndrome), also known as premature senile disease in children, is a genetic disease. Hutchinson first reported in 1886. The premature aging patient's physical aging process is 5 to 10 times faster than normal. The patient looks like an old man, and his organs are also rapidly degraded, causing a decline in physiological functions. Symptoms include thinness, hair loss, and late teeth. Children with this rare disease, even if only 16 years old, look like elderly people in their sixties and seventies. Sick children generally live only between 7 and 20 years of age. Most of them will die from aging diseases such as cardiovascular disease. There is no effective treatment at present. They rely on drugs to treat them. Although this disease is a congenital hereditary disease, it is not certain whether it is an autosomal recessive or a dominant inheritance. This disease is a syndrome characterized by delayed development and progressive senile degenerative changes in infancy.

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