[Correspondence] Diet, atherosclerosis, and helmintic infection in Tsimane – Authors' reply

We thank Robert H Howland, and Erin E Masterson and colleagues for their interest in our Article1 that reported low levels of coronary artery calcium among Tsimane horticulturalists of the Bolivian Amazon. In the Article,1 we hypothesised that, despite a high inflammatory burden, low coronary artery calcium in the Tsimane population could be due to a combination of low lifetime blood lipids, largely traditional diets, and high physical activity.

Source: LANCET - November 3, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Hillard Kaplan, Benjamin C Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Jagat Narula, Michael Gurven, Gregory S Thomas Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research