Assessing the existence of the male-female health-survival paradox in the past: Dental caries in medieval London.
Sharon N DeWittePublished in: American journal of biological anthropology (2024)
These results do not provide evidence of the existence of a male-female health-survival paradox, but they do corroborate existing evidence of improvements in health in general in the aftermath of the Black Death. The decreased prevalence of dental caries after the Black Death may reflect dietary improvements or the effects of selective mortality during the epidemic.