"'We were struck by the similar appearance of vascular calcification in the mummies and our present-day patients,' said another researcher, Dr. Michael Miyamoto of the University of California at San Diego. 'Perhaps the development of atherosclerosis is a part of being human.'....rich people ate meat, and they did salt meat, so maybe they had hypertension (high blood pressure), but that's speculation,' Thomps"
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Time: Heart disease in Mummies? wow...
From TIME http://wellness.blogs.time.com/2009/11/18/mummies-offer-clues-about-the-history-of-heart-disease/:
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