3500-year-old mummy of an Egyptian princess reveals the first known case of coronary artery disease

Meet Princess Ahmose - Meryet - Amon , an Egyptian princess who hold up between the twelvemonth of 1580 and 1550 BCE , and is officially the oldest bang case of coronary arterial blood vessel disease . A radical of researcher from Egypt and the USA has descend together andperformed CT scan on a number of mum , and shown that ancient royals had some very innovative health problems .

44 of the 52 mummies scanned had placeable arteries , and of them almost half had arterial atherosclerosis , but only three had evidence of coronary arterial atherosclerosis — though to be fair only 16 had identifiable hearts anyway . Princess Ahmose - Meryet - Amon was the mostly distinctly seeable of that tercet , and she had atherosclerosis in two of her three master coronary arteries .

While we in the main consider heart disease a problem of modern , affluent , sedentary lifestyle , you ’d be hard - pressed to describe the life of royalty in any other way . The Princess drop dead in her 40 , and would have had a dieting far high in fat and gelt than most , not to mention high levels of salinity to preserve the food . There ’s also evidence to intimate that she hadarthritis and scoliosis .

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