Heart disease is common in humans and chimpanzees, but is caused by different pathological processes

Authors: Nissi Varki, Dan Anderson, James G. Herndon, Tho Pham, Christopher J. Gregg, Monica Cheriyan, James Murphy, Elizabeth Strobert, Jo Fritz, James G. Else, Ajit Varki

Publication/Journal: Evolutionary Applications

Keywords: atherosclerosis, evolution, great ape, heart attacks, heart disease, heart failure, hominids, myocardial fibrosis.

2009

Atherosclerosis with Multifocal Myocardial Infarction in a Pacific Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens Illiger)

Authors: A.D. Gruber, Martin Peters, Andreas Knieriem, Peter Wohlsein

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Keywords: aging/pathology, animals, arteriosclerosis/complications, arteriosclerosis/pathology, arteriosclerosis/veterinary, corneal opacity/complications, corneal opacity/veterinary, corneal ulcer/complications, corneal ulcer/veterinary, fatal outco, zoo animals

2002

Review of medical literature of great apes in the 1980s

Authors: Donald L. Janssen, R. Mitchell Bush

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: chimpanzee, diseases, gorilla gorilla, orangutan, pan sp, pongo pygmaeus, veterinary medicine

1990