Elvis Presley died on August 16,1977. He was extremely overweight when he died.

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Elvis Presley died on August 16,1977. He was extremely overweight when he died. He had a history of ingesting fatty foods including fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches. He also had a long list of prescription medications he was taking, some of which had cardiovascular or neurological effects. He died on the toilet while trying to defecate. The autopsy on Elvis Presley revealed that his rectum and colon were severely impacted with fecal material, but the cause of death was listed as cardiac arrhythmia. Which cranial nerve serves both the rectum and the heart? How could the normal function of that nerve have contributed to his death?

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Elvis presley: The data indicating that he is overweight. Again he has a history of ingesting the fatty food.

If the obese person usually takes fatty food means there is a chance of cardiac arrest due to the accumilation of the fat in the cardiac blood vessels.

Then usually due to the increased demand of oxygen hypertension may cause.

He is taking the neurological and cardiac medications because he is suffering from cardiac disorders.

VAGUS is the cranial serve which serves both the rectum and the heart.

The function of the vagus nerve is keeping the heart rate constant and controlling the food degestion. Likewise the vagus nerve is related to both the heart and the rectum.

Due to the cardiac disorders the arrhythmia which is due to the irregular heart beats leads to cardiac arrest and death of the elvis presley occured. The normal function of the vagus nerve is to maintain constant heart rate and also involved in controlling of the food digestion thus by cardiac arrhythmia the person diet.

The normal function of the cranial nerve is it controlls the muscles of facial expression,it controls the taste sense and also controls the tongue.These nerve emerges from brain stem.

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