Higher blood lipid levels after the transition to menopause in two forager-horticulturalist populations
Menopause is a relatively rare life history trait primarily studied in industrial populations. We examined relationships between menopause and cardiovascular disease risk biomarkers in two forager-horticulturalist populations. We found positive associations between menopause and total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, non-HDL, triglycerides, and apolipoprotein-B, suggesting lipid increases post-menopause are a human universal.
Authors
- Suhail Ghafoor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9070-8920)
- Philip L. Hooper (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9458-1202)
- Gregory S. Thomas
- Bret Beheim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4653-3155)
- Kenneth H. Buetow (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4439-0939)
- Michael Gurven (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5661-527X)
- Carrie L. Jenkins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2235-2360)
- Jonathan Stieglitz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5985-9643)
- Hillard S Kaplan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7398-7358)
- Benjamin C. Trumble (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3201-0628)
- Caleb E. Finch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7617-3958)
- Jacob E. Aronoff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1422-801X)
- Nicole Appel
- Margaret Gatz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1071-9970)
- D K Cummings
- Jesús Vázquez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1461-5092)
- Malcolm Getz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3003-727X)
Institutions
- University of Southern California (US)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- Chapman University (US)
- University of California, Irvine Medical Center (US)
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE)
- MemorialCare Health System (US)
- Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (FR)
- Arizona State University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Evolution Medicine and Public Health
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf020
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.90
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche
- National Institutes of Health