Gene Hackman, whose wife Betsy Arakawa died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, tested negative for the disease, according to a new autopsy.

PEOPLE obtained a final autopsy report regarding Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy's February deaths on Sunday, April 27. New Mexico's Office of the Medical Investigator ruled on Feb. 27 that Gene died of hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease,

Actor Gene Hackman had not eaten for quite some time before his death, a final autopsy report has revealed, though heart disease was the ultimate cause.