Cardiovascular disease, in particular the achievement of the coronary arteries at theorigin of the Angina and of the infarction, are favored by a number of risk factors.Aside from heredity, gender and age, the main cardiovascular risk factors aremodifiable:
smoking: almost all persons making a heart attack before age 45 are smokers.Between 30 and 70 years, 4 out of 10 cardiovascular deaths are due to smoking.
Permanent elevation of the blood pressure or high blood pressure (hypertension),
diabetes, which is defined as an excess of sugar in the blood,
Excess cholesterol (or high cholesterol): a rise in the rate of LDL-cholesterol in theblood fat represents a significant risk factor. A low HDL-cholesterol is a risk factor,
excess weight or obesity: waist circumference value has in itself a good indicative of avascular risk. You have to be vigilant if waist circumference ≥ 88 cm in women and ≥102 cm in men
physical inactivity: it is also one of the enemies of our arteries contribute to the onsetor worsening of several factors of risk (overweight, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol...).
Risk factors do not add up, they will potentiate, that they worsen each other. Thus, the association of several risk factors, even low-intensity can result in a very high risk ofcardiovascular disease. For example, if you have a blood pressure moderate, a littleintolerance to sugar, moderately high cholesterol, and you are a small smoker, you aremuch more 'at risk' as that will be a very high cholesterol alone.