Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease

List of Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease

The list of risk factors mentioned for Cardiovascular Disease in various sources includes:

• Cigarette smoking
• Passive smoke
• High blood pressure
• High blood cholesterol
• Overweight
• Obesity
• Physical inactivity
• Stress
• Diabetes
• Family history of CVD
• Oral contraceptives - especially for smokers.

Risk factors discussion:

NHLBI Heart Disease & Women Are You At Risk: NHLBI (Excerpt)

The major risk factors for cardiovascular disease that you can do something about are cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, overweight, and physical inactivity. Other risk factors, such as diabetes, also are conditions you have some control over. Even just one risk factor will raise your chances of having heart-related problems. But the more risk factors you have, the more likely you are to develop cardiovascular diseases--and the more concerned you should be about protecting your heart health. (Source: excerpt from NHLBI Heart Disease & Women Are You At Risk: NHLBI)

HEART AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: NWHIC (Excerpt)

Many factors put a woman at risk for cardiovascular disease. The more risk factors a woman has, the greater the chance that she will have a heart attack or stroke. There are some factors that you can’t control such as getting older, family health history, and race. But you can do something about the three biggest risk factors for cardiovascular disease - cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, and high blood cholesterol. Stopping smoking will reduce your risk and you can get help, through support groups, special behavior change programs, and medication, to quit. High blood pressure and high blood cholesterol can be controlled through diet, exercise, and medication. Talk with your health care provider about developing a plan for cardiovascular health. (Source: excerpt from HEART AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: NWHIC)

Risks factors for Cardiovascular Disease: medical news summaries:

The following medical news items are relevant to risk factors for Cardiovascular Disease:

• 52 percent of British people fear exercise for one reason or another
• AIDS and the elderly
• Anti-inflammatory drugs suffer Vioxx backlash
• Blood protein concentration may determine heart disease risk
• Bone problems for obese kids
• Breast cancer therapy can cause ongoing lethargy
• Celecoxib no longer allowed to be used as a cancer treatment
• Co-morbidities override high blood pressure
• Combination therapy causes significant reduction in risk of heart attack
• Common sleep disturbance frequently undiagnosed
• Complications of pregnancy link to future stroke risk
• Concerns over Celebrex use mounting
• COX-2 inhibitors need further analysis to determine the range of side effects
• CRP may be linked to risk of heart disease
• Dentists role in diagnosing stroke risk
• Diabetes linked to smoking
• Different hypertension drug therapy combinations pose different level of risk
• Erectile dysfunction is often a symptom of other bigger problems
• Expanding waistlines inducing heat disease
• Future risk of heart disease predictive with pregnancy
• Heart attack survivors risk stroke
• Heart disease can occur in people with few cardiovascular risks
• Heart disease established from embryonic stage
• Heart disease link to impotence
• Heart suffers from diet pill
• High cholesterol in women needs to be given more attention
• Higher cholesterol found with decaffeinated coffee drinkers
• Impotence and hypertension
• Kidney disease goes in hand with obesity
• Lack of sleep influences illnesses
• Long-term offspring health may be affected by mother's diet during pregnancy
• Men and osteoporosis
• Merck faces nearly 500 lawsuits over Vioxx
• More to smoking than just cancer
• More Vioxx lawsuits
• New results on Bextra implicates whole cox-2 inhibitor class of drugs
• New risk factors may be associated with cardiovascular disease risk
• New sign for heart attack
• Obesity causing dramatic increase in diabetes
• Oral health and overall wellbeing
• Pfizer releases Bextra risks information
• Prolonged use of HIV treatment leads to heart disease and stroke
• Racial discrepancy with diet and breast cancer
• Red meat consumption linked to higher risk of type 2 diabetes
• Rheumatoid arthritis and heart disease link
• Rheumatoid arthritis sufferers face greater risk of silent heart disease
• Sleeping problems pose high risk for adverse health effects
• Some antipsychotic drugs linked to increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes
• Study shows 88-140,000 people may have suffered from cardiovascular problems caused by Vioxx
• The whole body toll of high blood pressure
• Vioxx to prove that short term use not harmful
• Waist to hip ratio important in assessing cardiovascular health
• Warning signs of a heart attack
• Warnings highlight possible risk associated with anemia drug
• WHO concerned with increase incidence in stroke and heart disease
• More news »

About risk factors:

Risk factors for Cardiovascular Disease are factors that do not seem to be a direct cause of the disease, but seem to be associated in some way. Having a risk factor for Cardiovascular Disease makes the chances of getting a condition higher but does not always lead to Cardiovascular Disease. Also, the absence of any risk factors or having a protective factor does not necessarily guard you against getting Cardiovascular Disease. For general information and a list of risk factors, see the risk center.

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