Fast-forward Aging

By Josie Glausiusz
Nov 1, 1996 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 5:24 AM

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Cataracts, osteoporosis, heart disease, and other such ills typically afflict only the aged. For the unfortunate sufferers of a disease called Werner’s syndrome, however, these ailments strike not in the seventh or eighth decade of life but the third. Such people age abnormally fast and usually die before they reach 50.

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