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  2. Progeria - Wikipedia

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    Progerin may also play a role in normal human aging, since its production is activated in typical senescent cells. [21] Unlike other "accelerated aging diseases", such as Werner syndrome, Cockayne syndrome, or xeroderma pigmentosum, progeria may not be directly caused by defective DNA repair. These diseases each cause changes in a few specific ...

  3. Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva - Wikipedia

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    Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (/ ˌ f aɪ b r oʊ d ɪ ˈ s p l eɪ ʒ (i) ə ɒ ˈ s ɪ f ɪ k æ n z p r ə ˈ ɡ r ɛ s ɪ v ə /; [1] abbr. FOP), also called Münchmeyer disease or formerly myositis ossificans progressiva, is an extremely rare connective tissue disease in which fibrous connective tissue such as muscle, tendons, and ligaments turn into bone tissue (ossification).

  4. DNA repair-deficiency disorder - Wikipedia

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    DNA repair defects are seen in nearly all of the diseases described as accelerated aging disease, in which various tissues, organs or systems of the human body age prematurely. Because the accelerated aging diseases display different aspects of aging, but never every aspect, they are often called segmental progerias by biogerontologists .

  5. Aging-associated diseases - Wikipedia

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    An aging-associated disease (commonly termed age-related disease, ARD) is a disease that is most often seen with increasing frequency with increasing senescence. They are essentially complications of senescence, distinguished from the aging process itself because all adult animals age ( with rare exceptions ) but not all adult animals ...

  6. DNA damage theory of aging - Wikipedia

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    The maximum lifespans of humans, naked mole-rat, and mouse are respectively ~120, 30 and 3 years. The longer-lived species, humans and naked mole rats expressed DNA repair genes, including core genes in several DNA repair pathways, at a higher level than did mice.

  7. The U.S. has the widest health span-lifespan gap - AOL

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    According to the findings, the majority of the health span deficit can be attributed to non-infectious diseases, which include heart disease and diabetes — and which have cumulative effects that ...

  8. Poor and Elderly: The 5 Worst States to Grow Old In

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    By and large, the Northeast and Southeast -- both of which tend to have higher population density and higher general cost of living -- are harder places to grow old.

  9. Neuroregeneration - Wikipedia

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    Guillain–Barré syndrome – nerve damage. Neuroregeneration in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) occurs to a significant degree. [5] [6] After an injury to the axon, peripheral neurons activate a variety of signaling pathways which turn on pro-growth genes, leading to reformation of a functional growth cone and regeneration.