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Hayley Leanne Okines (3 December 1997 – 2 April 2015) was an English author and activist who was a sufferer of the extremely rare aging disease progeria. [3] [4] She was known for spreading awareness of the condition.
People with Williams syndrome tend to use speech that is rich in emotional descriptors, high in prosody (exaggerated rhythm and emotional intensity), and features unusual terms and strange idioms. [37] Among the hallmark traits of people with Williams syndrome is an apparent lack of social inhibition.
As there is no known cure, life expectancy of people with progeria is 15 years, as of 2024. [59] At least 90 percent of patients die from complications of atherosclerosis, such as heart attack or stroke. [60] Mental development is not adversely affected; in fact, intelligence tends to be average to above average. [61]
The average life expectancy for someone with frontotemporal dementia, which Bruce Willis has, is seven to 13 years after diagnosis, per the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration. Cleveland ...
The docuseries, released in February just days after Williams FTD diagnosis was made public, covers the radio and television personality's life after ending The Wendy Williams Show, including her ...
A Pennsylvania woman who recently celebrated her 114th birthday is being recognized as the oldest living person in North America — and credits her very long life to abstaining from everyday vices.
The mean epigenetic age of the five pure Syndrome X subjects was 6.7 years (standard error=1.0) which is not significantly different from the mean chronological age of 6.3 years (standard error=1.8). Notably, the oldest pure Syndrome X case had an epigenetic age of 14.5 years which was 3.2 years older than her true chronological age.
Living Testaments. The oldest known person in the world died at 118, far exceeding the United Nation's world life expectancy of 72.98 years. But living past 100 isn't the rarity it once was.