Heart disease? Sure, she's 3,500 years old!

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - 12:00 in Health & Medicine

An ancient Egyptian princess would have needed bypass surgery if she'd lived today, according to researchers who examined the mummy and found blocked arteries in her heart in what's now the oldest case of human heart disease.

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