People have been suffering from heart disease since 4,000 years ago

Atherosclerosis and atherosclerosis that cause heart disease and stroke in humans existed about 4,000 years ago, not a new disease in modern life when people are infected with bad habits like smoking. Drugs, alcohol, and laziness.

This is the result of a large-scale study of ancient mummies by scientists recently published in the medical journal The Lancet on March 10.

After the shooting of an ancient 137 mummy CT, dating back about 4,000 years (from 3,800 BC - 1,900 AD) from four archaeological sites including Egypt, Peru, Southwestern America and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, the team found that one-third of mummies on each had atherosclerosis and arteriosclerosis.

Atherosclerosis

It is worth mentioning that these diseases existed in the mummies that were the ancient inhabitants of a healthy lifestyle, who were active in the Aleutian Islands, who lived in the form of herds and continued hunting and gathering. gather.

Dr. Randall Thompson, a cardiologist at the Central American Heart Center in Kansas City and the author of the article, said "heart disease has lurked over humanity for more than 4,000 years worldwide".

He said that a healthy lifestyle in life cannot completely eliminate the risk of heart disease.

Through research, scientists believe that cardiovascular disease is probably the natural result of old age, not necessarily due to the risk factors from smoking, drinking, eating high quality foods. fat and not exercise.

The scientists said that although a healthy lifestyle does not completely solve the risk of heart disease, it is a potentially dangerous disease "inherent" in humans, but exercise, eating Moderate drinking, no smoking . are factors that significantly reduce the risk of this dangerous disease.