“Heart disease is a present-day killer, accounting for one in four deaths in the United States. However, recent research suggests that modern factors can’t fully explain its prevalence. After all, people who lived thousands of years ago perished with sick hearts too.”
“Scientists know this because they’ve looked into the hearts of mummies. In the October edition of the American Heart Journal a team led by Mohammad Madjid, M.D., presents a proof-of-concept study that demonstrates ancient people had clogged arteries to an extent that was previously unrecognized. The study began as an effort to evaluate whether or not heart disease is purely a modern-day problem. Now, Madjid tells Inverse, it’s clear heart disease is not “a disease limited to our time.”