Byinshi kuri Robert Wadlow umugabo wa mbere muremure wabayeho ku Isi #rwanda #RwOT

Wigeze wibaza uko umuntu ashobora gukura akagera ku burebure burenze metero 2.7, hafi inshuro ebyiri uburebure bw’umuntu usanzwe?

Umuntu muremure kurusha abandi wigeze gupimwa neza ni Robert Pershing Wadlow, wavukiye muri Amerika mu 1918. Ku myaka 10 gusa yari amaze kugira uburebure bidasanzwe hafi 1.98 m, kandi gukura kwe gukomeza kwihuta cyane kurusha uko bisanzwe bigenda ku muntu.

Ku itariki ya 27 Kamena 1940, amaze imyaka 22, Robert Wadlow yapimwe uburebure bugera kuri 2.72 m, aba ari we muntu muremure kurusha abandi wigeze kwandikwa mu mateka. Iki gipimo cyemejwe na Guinness World Records.

Impamvu y’uburebure bwe yari gigantism, indwara iterwa n’uko umubiri ukora growth hormone (imisemburo y’ubukure) nyinshi cyane mu gihe umuntu akiri gukura. Kuri Wadlow, ibi byari bifitanye isano na pituitary gland yari iri gukora growth hormone nyinshi. Iyo growth hormone ibaye nyinshi mu bwana, amagufwa akomeza gukura mu burebure kurusha ibisanzwe.

Ubushakashatsi bw’amateka y’ubuvuzi bugaragaza ko abaganga bari barabonye ko Wadlow yari afite pituitary abnormality, ariko mu gihe cye uburyo bwo kuvura iki kibazo bwari butaratera imbere nk’ubu. Nta buryo bwari buhari bwo kugenzura neza growth hormone nk’uko bikorwa muri iki gihe.

Ikintu gitangaje ni uko n’ubwo yari muremure cyane, uburebure bwe bwagiraga ingaruka zikomeye ku buzima bwe. Yari akeneye ibifasha amaguru n’inkoni kugira ngo agende, kandi kubera ko amaguru n’ibirenge byari bifite uburemere bwinshi, yagiraga ibibazo byo kugenda.

Robert Wadlow yapfuye mu 1940, afite imyaka 22 gusa, nyuma y’uko infection yatewe n’igikomere ku kuguru imugizeho ingaruka zikomeye.

Bityo, Robert Wadlow ntabwo yari muremure gusa; uburebure bwe bwari ingaruka z’imikorere idasanzwe ya hormone. Kandi kugeza ubu, 2.72 m ni bwo burebure bw’umuntu wemejwe neza ko ari bwo burebure kurusha ubundi bwose mu mateka.

Umugabo muremure wabayeho ku Isi

Jean François Regis AHISHAKIYE / ISIMBI.RW