Comments on: Mummy’s curse: hardened arteries http://futurity.org/health-medicine/mummys-curse-hardened-arteries/ Research news from leading universities Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:02:40 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sam http://futurity.org/health-medicine/mummys-curse-hardened-arteries/comment-page-1/#comment-2252 Sam Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:30:17 +0000 http://futurity.org/?p=5951#comment-2252 Looks like even then, about 3500 years ago, just like today, the calcification process become more severe when people aged over 45. The mummies where people of high socioeconomic status with possibly better diet then people of lower socioeconomic status. It makes me wonder, what was the situation in people of low socioeconomic status? Did they developed calcification and hardening of the arteries in the same rate as a rich people? Most likely we have to wait to additional discoveries, don't we? Looks like even then, about 3500 years ago, just like today, the calcification process become more severe when people aged over 45. The mummies where people of high socioeconomic status with possibly better diet then people of lower socioeconomic status.

It makes me wonder, what was the situation in people of low socioeconomic status? Did they developed calcification and hardening of the arteries in the same rate as a rich people?

Most likely we have to wait to additional discoveries, don’t we?

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