An Evolutionary Perspective of Nutrition and Inflammation as Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Disease
Table 1
Actual conditions to which humans are not well adapted and disease to which we are at a higher risk of developing due to current environmental conditions.
Condition to which humans are not well adapted
Environmental conditions to which humans adapted
Risk derived from poor adaptation to conditions
Reference
Low-grade chronic inflammation
Great infectious burden with an active immune system
Low-grade systemic inflammation that leads to metabolic syndrome, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and hypertension