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Ancients 'Had Heart Disease Too'
from BBC News Online
Hardening of the arteries has been found in Egyptian mummies--suggesting that the risk factors for heart disease may be ancient, researchers say. A team of US and Egyptian scientists carried out medical scans on 22 mummies from Cairo's Museum of Antiquities.
They found evidence of hardened arteries in three of them and possible heart disease in three more. All the mummies were of high socio-economic status and would have had a rich diet.
Details of the study by the University of California, the Mid America Heart Institute, Wisconsin Heart Hospital and Al Azhar Medical School in Cairo appear in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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