Heart disease found in Egyptian mummies

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 17:35 in Health & Medicine

Hardening of the arteries has been detected in Egyptian mummies, some as old as 3,500 years, suggesting that the factors causing heart attack and stroke are not only modern ones; they afflicted ancient people, too.

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