Modern Heart Disease Found in Ancient Egyptian Mummies

HeartWire on November 23, 2009, reported the discovery of atherosclerosis (hardening-of-the-arteries) in Egyptian mummies 3000 years old. 

So it appears that atherosclerosis in not just a disease of modern civilization, as suggested by some.

Steve Parker, M.D.

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