If you are into Bollywood movies, you might have had seen Amitabh Bachchan starrer Paa wherein he plays the role of a child diagnosed with progeria. The same disease recently claimed the life of an 8-year-old in Ukraine.
For the unknown, progeria is a situation under which a human’s body ages at a rapid pace. Anna Saikdon suffered from Hutchinson-Gilford genetic progeria disease since birth. While she was mere 8-year-old physically, but her biological age was of someone who is 80-year-old.
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The child passed away on Sunday after suffering multiple failures of her inner organs linked to her premature aging condition.
Her doctor Dr. Nadezhda Kataman briefing the phenomenon said, “For children with progeria diagnosis one year is equal to eight-to-ten years, so her real age was between 70 and 80.”
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The doctor also added that Anna suffered strokes and limb paralysis, which affected the movement of her arms and legs.
