Progeria-Description

=Progerias Disease Description=

=Progerias disease is one of the most rarest diseases in the world. only about 20 kids in the entire would have it.this disease causes children starting from birth, to age ten times faster than a regular. people with this disease have regular intelectual capasit. this disease causes the children to have extremley weak bones and skulls. the disease effects ages new borns to 1 year of age.Children with this disease will experience similar conditions, respitory, cardiovascular, and arthritic**,**that a 70 year old person would. By the age of 1 or 2, their hair turns lighter in color, and eventually begins to fall out. By 3 or 4, they are almost completely bald, thin skinned, wrinkled and spotted in various parts of their body, with a stooped appearance and large veiny heads, a pinched nose, delayed tooth formation, stiffness of joints, hip dislocations, cardiovascular problems, arteriosclerosis, wrinkled/aged-looking skin, **dwarfism. Doctor Jonathan Hutcherson first discovered this disease in 1886.**=
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