What are the important risk factors for heart disease?
What are the important risk factors for heart disease?
What are the important risk factors for heart disease?
In general, when we talk about risk factors for heart disease, we tend to think about the most common variety of heart disease in adults – coronary artery disease. Risk factors for heart disease can be divided into modifiable and non modifiable ones. The non modifiable ones are age, gender, ethnicity and family history. The risk of coronary artery disease increases as age advances.
So also, the risk is more in males compared to pre-menopausal females. A strong family history of premature heart disease is an important risk factor. Some races are more prone to coronary artery disease than others. Obviously, all these risk factors cannot be modified.
We are more concerned about the modifiable risk factors because that is where the individual and the community can act to reduce the risk. Important modifiable risk factors are smoking, high blood pressure (hypertension), high blood sugar (diabetes mellitus), high body weight (obesity), high levels of lipids in the blood (dyslipidemia) and chronic kidney disease.
There are other risk factors as well, though not always checked for – increased levels of homocysteine, fibrinogen, C-reactive protein (CRP) and lipoprotein (a) [Lp(a)] in the blood. Though Lp (a) levels carry significant risk, there are no well established ways of reducing the risk due to it.
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3.419 -> in general when we talk about risk
6.12 -> factors for heart disease we tend to
8.7 -> think about the most common variety of
11.28 -> heart disease in adults coronary artery
14.04 -> disease
15.36 -> risk factors for heart disease can be
17.82 -> divided into modifiable and
20.539 -> non-modifiable ones
23.22 -> the non-modifiable ones are age gender
27.56 -> ethnicity and family history
30.9 -> the risk of coronary artery disease
33.18 -> increases as age advances so also the
37.68 -> risk is more in males compared to
40.16 -> premenopausal females
42.3 -> a strong family history of premature
44.579 -> heart disease has an important risk
46.92 -> factor
47.82 -> some races are more prone to coronary
50.46 -> artery disease than others
53.039 -> obviously all these risk factors cannot
56.28 -> be modified
57.6 -> we are more concerned about the
59.699 -> modifiable risk factors because that is
62.52 -> where the individual and the community
64.28 -> can act to reduce the risk
67.34 -> important modifiable risk factors are
70.68 -> smoking high blood pressure hypertension
73.92 -> high blood sugar diabetes mellitus high
77.7 -> body weight obesity high levels of
81 -> lipids in the blood dyslipidemia
84.24 -> and chronic kidney disease there are
87.479 -> other risk factors as well though not
89.82 -> always strict for increased levels of
92.88 -> homocysteine fibrinogen
95.64 -> C reactive protein CRP and lipoprotein
99.78 -> little a LPA in the blood
102.72 -> though LPA levels carry significant risk
