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Computed tomographic evidence of atherosclerosis in the mummified remains of humans from around the world

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dc.contributor.author Thompson, Randall C.
dc.contributor.author Allam, Adel H.
dc.contributor.author Zink, Albert
dc.contributor.author Wann, L. Samuel
dc.contributor.author Lombardi, Guido P.
dc.contributor.author Cox, Samantha L.
dc.contributor.author Frohlich, Bruno
dc.contributor.author Sutherland, M. Linda
dc.contributor.author Sutherland, James D.
dc.contributor.author Frohlich, Thomas C.
dc.contributor.author King, Samantha I.
dc.contributor.author Miyamoto, Michael I.
dc.contributor.author Monge, Janet M.
dc.contributor.author Valladolid, Clide M.
dc.contributor.author El-Halim Nur El-Din, Abd
dc.contributor.author Narula, Jagat
dc.contributor.author Thompson, Adam M.
dc.contributor.author Finch, Caleb E.
dc.contributor.author Thomas, Gregory S.
dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-10T18:11:38Z
dc.date.available 2020-06-10T18:11:38Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/8048
dc.description.abstract Although atherosclerosis is widely thought to be a disease of modernity, computed tomographic evidence of atherosclerosis has been found in the bodies of a large number of mummies. This article reviews the findings of atherosclerotic calcifications in the remains of ancient people-humans who lived across a very wide span of human history and over most of the inhabited globe. These people had a wide range of diets and lifestyles and traditional modern risk factors do not thoroughly explain the presence and easy detectability of this disease. Nontraditional risk factors such as the inhalation of cooking fire smoke and chronic infection or inflammation might have been important atherogenic factors in ancient times. Study of the genetic and environmental risk factors for atherosclerosis in ancient people may offer insights into this common modern disease. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation.ispartofseries Global Heart
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject Tomography, X-Ray Computed en_US
dc.subject Atherosclerosis/diagnostic imaging en_US
dc.subject Austria en_US
dc.subject Egypt en_US
dc.subject Humans en_US
dc.subject Italy en_US
dc.subject Mummies/diagnostic imaging en_US
dc.subject North America en_US
dc.subject Peru en_US
dc.title Computed tomographic evidence of atherosclerosis in the mummified remains of humans from around the world en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/review
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gheart.2014.03.2455
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.02.04
dc.relation.issn 2211-8179


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