Ulsterman who discovered how Elvis Presley died ( scientific research)

An professor from Northern Ireland has been credited with building up the careful reason for Elvis Presley’s passing – lastly putting to rest the wild conspiracy theories  about how he kicked the bucket.

Kansas-based Stephen Kingsmore’s revolutionary DNA-based findings from last year are now being accepted in medical circles as the definitive explanation as to why the ‘The King’ passed away, aged just 42, in August 1977.

Dr Kingsmore (54) graduated from Queen’s University Belfast with a degree in medicine, surgery and obstetrics in 1985 and is now a renowned geneticist.

He analysed a sample of hair from the world’s most successful singer which pointed to Presley having suffered from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy – a disease which causes the thickening of the heart and weakening of the heart muscle. American superstar Presley displayed many of the symptoms of this disease, including an irregular heartbeat, fatigue, fainting and high blood pressure.

A junk food and prescription pills addict, he died in a bathroom at his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee and, although it was officially recorded that he had died of heart failure, constant speculation about his demise has continued for nearly 40 years.

Dr Kingsmore, who will speak at the Irish Society of Human Genetics Annual Scientific Meeting at Dublin City University today, told Channel 4’s Dead Famous DNA programme that the Presley results indicate it would be unfair to blame the singer’s lifestyle for his death.

The former Craigavon Hospital intern added: “There has been so much speculation about cause of death, and so much ill spoken of his lifestyle, and we had this intriguing finding that possibly Elvis had a medical illness, and all of the stuff about how he killed himself with his lifestyle might have been very unfair.”

Although his research on the Presley case has upped his public profile, Dr Kingsmore is already well known in medical circles. His work as Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Missouri and Director of the Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas has commanded wide respect within his profession.

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