Commentary

Mummies may hold clues to atherosclerosis predisposition


 

The study was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Paleocardiology Foundation, the National Bank of Egypt, Siemens, and St. Luke’s Hospital Foundation of Kansas City. The authors said that they had no conflicts of interest. They said the sponsors of the study had no role in study design, data collection, primary data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report.

--Naseem S. Miller (@NaseemSMiller)

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