Atherosclerosis across 4000 years of human history: the Horus study

Featured EuroPRevent Speaker - Lessons from the Past:  Why would a third of the mummies of the ancient cultures of Egypt, Peru, the American Southwest and the Aleutian Islands have atherosclerosis when their mean age of death was 36 years? Why would a 50 year old female hunter gather living a subsistence life style consuming a marine based diet in the Aleutian Islands have CAD?  Find out more Topics: Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management, Atherosclerosis
Source: ESC News and Press - Category: Cardiology Source Type: news