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We found the review by de Valk and Marx¹ on iron, atherosclerosis, and ischemic heart disease extremely interesting. The primary reason for our interest concerns the situation of dietary iron overload in many populations in southern Africa, a phenomenon that is associated, inter alia, with a low frequency of severe atherosclerosis and/or a low occurrence of ischemic heart disease (IHD).

As described in a recently published review,² iron overload (siderosis) in Africans was very common in the 1960s and 1970s.³ While its prevalence has diminished because of changes in dietary and other practices, a study done in a rural village in 1990 revealed that two thirds of elderly men and a third of elderly women had serum ferritin levels of 200 µg/L or higher. As for atherosclerosis, past surveys revealed the prevalence of severe lesions of the aorta in this population to be low⁴; in large measure, this is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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