Atherosclerosis in ancient mummified humans: the global HORUS study
Eur Heart J
.
2024 Jul 9;45(25):2259-2262.
doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehae283.
Authors
Randall C Thompson
1
2
,
M Linda Sutherland
3
,
Adel H Allam
4
,
Alice Paladin
5
,
Albert R Zink
5
,
L Samuel Wann
6
,
James D Sutherland
3
,
Bruno Frohlich
7
,
David Hunt
8
,
Michael I Miyamoto
9
,
Christopher J Rowan
10
,
David E Michalik
11
12
,
Caleb E Finch
13
14
,
Guido P Lombardi
15
,
Muhammad Al-Tohamy Soliman
16
,
Janet M Monge
17
,
Clide M Vallodolid
18
,
Samantha L Cox
19
20
,
Gomaa Abdel-Maksoud
21
22
,
Ibrahim Badr
23
,
Abd El-Halim Nur El-Din
23
,
Samantha I King
24
,
Friederike Seyfried
25
,
Stephanie Panzer
26
27
,
Stephanie Zesch
28
,
Christina Wurst
5
,
Marco Samadelli
5
,
Giulia Gregori
29
,
Marco Rossani
29
,
Guido Valverde
5
,
Frank Maixner
5
,
Federica Facchetti
29
,
Scott Warnasch
30
,
Lucia Watson
31
,
Jagat Narula
32
,
Andrew J Nelson
33
,
Gregrory S Thomas
3
34
Affiliations
1
Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, MO 64112, USA.
2
University of Missouri-Kansas City, 4330 Wornall Rd, Suite 2000, Kansas City, MO 64112, USA.
3
Office of Research Administration, MemorialCare Health System, Fountain Valley, CA, USA.
4
Department of Cardiology, Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.
5
Eurac Research-Institute for Mummy Studies, Bolzano, Italy.
6
Division of Cardiology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
7
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
8
Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiners-Northern District, Commonwealth of Virginia, Manassas, VA, USA.
9
Division of Cardiology, Mission Heritage Medical Group, Providence Health, Mission Viejo, CA, USA.
10
Division of Cardiology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, USA.
11
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, USA.
12
Department of Pediatrics, MemorialCare Miller Children's & Women's Hospital, Long Beach, CA, USA.
13
University of Southern California, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
14
Dornsife College, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
15
Laboratorio de Paleopatologia, Catedra Pedro Weiss, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
16
National Research Center, Giza, Egypt.
17
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
18
Museo de Sitio Puruchuco-Arturo Jimenez Borja, Lima, Peru.
19
Physical Anthropology Section, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
20
Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
21
Organic Materials Conservation Department, Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
22
Cultural Heritage Programs, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), New Borg El-Arab City, Alexandria, Egypt.
23
Misr University for Science and Technology, 6th of October City, Egypt.
24
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA.
25
Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin, Germany.
26
Department of Radiology, Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Murnau, Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany.
27
Institute of Biomechanics, Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Murnau and Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
28
German Mummy Project, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany.
29
Collection, Research, and Education Department, Museo Egizio, Torino Italy.
30
Office of Chief Medical Examiner, New York City, New York, NY, USA.
31
Department of Anthropology, Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, Poland.
32
Academic Office, UTHealth Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
33
Department of Anthropology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
34
Division of Cardiology, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA, USA.
PMID:
38805176
DOI:
10.1093/eurheartj/ehae283
No abstract available
Keywords:
Atherosclerosis; Cardiovascular disease; Computed tomography; Mummies; Paleopathology.
Publication types
Historical Article
MeSH terms
Atherosclerosis* / history
Female
History, Ancient
Humans
Male
Mummies* / diagnostic imaging
Mummies* / history
Grants and funding
(#HJ-50069-12/National Endowment for the Humanities
Paleocardiology Foundation
Siemens Healthineers
National Bank of Egypt
Saint Luke's Hospital Foundation of Kansas City
Missouri Chapter of the American College of Cardiology
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-Seal of Excellence
Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano