Risk Factors

Certain risk factors increase your chances of developing heart and artery disease. Some risk factors are things you cannot change like age and family history of heart disease. Other risk factors can often be changed or controlled with life style changes and sometimes medications.

Risk Factors Include:

High blood pressure
Cigarette smoking
Diabetes
Carotid artery disease
Abdominal aortic aneurysm
Peripheral artery disease
Age (men over 45; women over 55)
HDL (healthy cholesterol less than 50 in women; less than 40 in men)
Family history of premature coronary heart disease
(at an age less than 55 in father or brother; less than 65 in mother or sister)

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