ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Atherosclerosis, Calcification
22 Mar 2017
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Atherosclerosis across 3800 years of human history: the horus study of 4 ancient. Mummies: 76 from ancient egypt, 51 from peru, 5 from american southwest (ancestral peubloans, 5 from aleutian islands (not as old as the other mummies but lived a typical hg lifestyle) Diet: egypt farmers, domesticated animals, peru farmers, domesticated animals not as hierarchical as the egyptians, ancestral peubloans (na) forager farmers, aleutian hunter-gathers. Housing: egypt above ground, mud brick houses, peru above ground mud homes, ancestral peubloans subterranean single family homes (pithouses, aleutian subterranean single & multi family homes (barabaras) Compare to modern day: not a cross sectional population but rather one of convenience (so generalizability may not be as good, the disease is ubiquitous as age increases disease of aging. Summary: found disease to be present in humans in numerous cultures across a very wide geographic region, suggest that the disease is an inherent component of human aging and not only modern lifestyle or diet.
