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- Title
Atherosclerosis in ancient mummified humans: the global HORUS study.
- Authors
Thompson, Randall C; Sutherland, M Linda; Allam, Adel H; Paladin, Alice; Zink, Albert R; Wann, L Samuel; Sutherland, James D; Frohlich, Bruno; Hunt, David; Miyamoto, Michael I; Rowan, Christopher J; Michalik, David E; Finch, Caleb E; Lombardi, Guido P; Soliman, Muhammad Al-Tohamy; Monge, Janet M; Vallodolid, Clide M; Cox, Samantha L; Abdel-Maksoud, Gomaa; Badr, Ibrahim
- Abstract
This article, published in the European Heart Journal, presents the findings of the HORUS study, which aimed to investigate the presence of atherosclerosis in ancient mummified humans. The study analyzed whole body CT scans of mummies from seven different cultures, including Egyptian, Peruvian, Bolivian, Unangan/Aleutian Islander, Greenlandic Inuit, ancestral Puebloan, and Middle-Ages Gobi Desert pastoralists. The results showed that atherosclerosis was present in all cultures except for one Indigenous Australian mummy. The study suggests that atherosclerosis has been a part of human populations for thousands of years and supports the existence of an innate human predisposition to the disease.
- Subjects
ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY artery calcification; ARTERIAL calcification; ATHEROSCLEROTIC plaque
- Publication
European Heart Journal, 2024, Vol 45, Issue 25, p2259
- ISSN
0195-668X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/eurheartj/ehae283