AGT and Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome: Further proof came from the reports linking the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) to accelerated aging via ANG II-induced telomere attrition demonstrated in both COVID-19 critical illness and Hutchinson-Gilford progeria (HGP) (Regenass et al., 1994; Herbert et al., 2008; Gerhard-Herman et al., 2012; Amraei and Rahimi, 2020; Aviv, 2020; Benetos et al., 2020; Bidault et al., 2020; Libby and Lüscher, 2020).