The family of renowned physicist Prof. Stephen Hawking issued a statement early Wednesday morning confirming his death at the age of 76 at his home in Cambridge, England, according to a report in the U.S. weekly Time magazine. Hawking was 21 years old when he suffered from motor neuron disease, resulting in muscle atrophy and paralysis, with only three fingers in his body that could be moved, and then lost the ability to speak due to pneumonia. Hawking has been battling the disease all his life. In 2015, Hawking revealed that he would consider "Assisted Suicide" to end his life when he had nothing more to contribute to the world. Now that Hawking is dead, a generation of geniuses has passed away.
The disease is rare, and there are about 200,000 people living with it. But ordinary people know very little about tachyphylaxis. 21-year-old tachyphylaxis - Stephen Hawking tachyphylaxis is the common name for neuronal disease, and people suffering from tachyphylaxis are called tachyphilic. The main symptom is muscle atrophy and loss of strength.
Acromegaly can be categorized into three types: spinal amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), progressive muscular dystrophy, and medullary weakness. Of these, ALS is the most common. Sources indicate that Hawking suffers from none other than spinal amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Acromegaly produces symptoms of muscle tremors, atrophy, such as tremors in the muscles of the hands, and muscle atrophy or depression. At the age of 21, Stephen Hawking was paralyzed by the disease, which causes muscle atrophy, leaving him with the ability to move only three fingers. He later had to rely on special input methods to communicate with people. As the disease progressed, the muscles would continue to atrophy until it became difficult to breathe and swallow.
Acromegaly typically lasts only two to three yearsThe biggest impact of acromegaly is the disability it causes to the patient, and most patients typically live two to three years between the onset of the disease and their death. Stephen Hawking was diagnosed at age 21, but fought the disease for nearly 55 years before dying at age 76.
From a tachyphylaxis perspective, it's very rare for Hawking to survive this long. Most acromegaly patients are unable to eat because of muscle atrophy and have to be intubated, or have fistulas, to help eat and excrete. The quality of life is very poor. The main cause of death is paralyzed respiratory muscles or complications of respiratory infections.
The cause of neuronal disease is now unclear, and 10% of acromegaly is caused through family inheritance. There is no specific drug for treatment, and there is no effective treatment for acromegaly. Treatment is mostly symptomatic and supportive to prolong the patient's life as much as possible. This is why Alzheimer's disease is called "waking death". Hawking long-term survival of the 2 reasons why Professor Stephen Hawking can survive so long with acromegaly ****? There are 2 main reasons: the breathing muscles and the swallowing muscles are not seriously affected.
One, Hawking developed the disease at the age of 21, but the breathing muscles were not affected and Hawking could still breathe normally. Most people who are frozen need to be hooked up to a ventilator to breathe because their breathing muscles have been affected. But Hawking was not hooked up to a ventilator. That's one reason.
Two, Hawking's swallowing muscles were also not seriously affected. A 2012 article in Scientific American noted that Hawking's swallowing muscles were not significantly affected, so Hawking was not dehydrated or malnourished.
Hawking's case is rare, as most acromegaly develops and eventually suffers from the effects brought on by atrophy of the breathing muscles, and swallowing muscles. Difficulty in breathing and adverse effects occur.
Hawking is a genius of physics, he proposed the singularity theory, indirectly proved the existence of the Big Bang singularity. In addition, also carried out the black hole conjecture, proposed Hawking radiation and other specialized theories. A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Fruit Shell are even more classics of Hawking's physical science popularization, which no one can surpass so far. He not only deserves our respect in physics, but also deserves to be mourned for his strength in the fight against disease.