As early as the mid-nineteenth century, tangible evidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) was found in Egyptian mummies, indicating that these people must have experienced atherosclerosis in the same way as modern humans do (Czermak, 1852; Ruffer, 1921). It has been suggested that the origin of the condition among the Egyptian elites was their diet, given that these people consumed food rich in saturated fat (David et al., 2010). However, we do not possess much data on the non-elite individuals from the Nile Valley, as they could not afford mummification.
Atherosclerosis among the Elites: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Century Mummified Human Remains from Palermo, Sicily (Italy) and Vilnius (Lithuania)
Piombino Mascali D.
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2023-01-01
Abstract
As early as the mid-nineteenth century, tangible evidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) was found in Egyptian mummies, indicating that these people must have experienced atherosclerosis in the same way as modern humans do (Czermak, 1852; Ruffer, 1921). It has been suggested that the origin of the condition among the Egyptian elites was their diet, given that these people consumed food rich in saturated fat (David et al., 2010). However, we do not possess much data on the non-elite individuals from the Nile Valley, as they could not afford mummification.File in questo prodotto:
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