The long list of diseases that contributed to the death of Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley is back in the lead.

,

, by Baz Luhrmann, focuses on more than 20 years of his career from the perspective of the complicated relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker,

is released on the big screen , and because

That day in 1977, the voice of the one considered by many to be the greatest Rock star of all time was definitively extinguished.

She died at her mansion at 3754 Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 42.

Probably, according to the autopsy performed on him, he had been dead for several hours when his girlfriend at the time, Ginger Alden, discovered his body lying on the bathroom floor.

The official version of his death, following an autopsy performed by 10 doctors at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, is that he died of an

.

But throughout all these years there have been many versions and interpretations of his death, basically focused on whether Elvis' lifestyle would have contributed to his death.

That the King of Rock took a large number of drugs, especially over the last 10 years of his life, is a fact reflected in much of the biographies about him.

The one who provided them was

, who years later,

, would be tried for murder and acquitted of the crime.

enlarged heart

During that process, a

was carried out and, among other things, it was discovered that

, when the average among men is 300 to 350 grams.

This condition is called

and it is not a disease in itself, but the sign of something else.

The truth is that the interpreter of

, was

, something that was not helped by his overweight (at the time of his death he was over 140 kilos in weight) and had a

, in addition of one

In that autopsy review, it was also seen that he suffered from an

, a substance generated in the liver that protects it and the lungs.

Added to this list of ailments is the

(in the last years of his life it was rare not to see him wearing sunglasses),

... It is surprising that on the day of his death up to 14 different types of drugs were found in his blood, including barbiturates, sleeping pills and placebos.

But the 1981 review wasn't the only review of Elvis's death.

In 1994, the state of Tennessee decided to reopen the case and the words of chief coroner Joseph Davis, collected by

magazine , ruled out death by overdose: "The position of the body was such that he was about to sit on the toilet when it happened. the attack. He launched himself onto the rug, his back in the air, and was dead when he hit the floor.

."

That theory was consistent with that put forth by another specialist, coroner Jerry Francisco, who as early as 1977 stated that he died of heart disease, "and the prescription drugs found in his blood were not a contributing factor

Maternal inheritance?

But that's not all.

In the biography

, by historian Sally Hoedell, the author points out that drug addiction was due to

that the King of Rock suffered from.

Some pathologies, Hoedell maintains, that would have their origin in his maternal family: his grandparents were first cousins ​​and the four children they had, including

, developed different pathologies.

Together with all the substances that Elvis consumed,

is also added , on which the singer would have already shown some

and that some analyzes suggest that it could interfere with his death, since he consumed it after a visit to the dentist the day before. your demise.

Elvis also had a

, responsible for metabolizing some compounds, including codeine.

If that process is not done correctly, that codeine can build up to toxic levels in the blood, according to some experts.

Whatever the cause of his death, that August 16 the legend of one of the greatest broken toys in the history of music began to grow even more.

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