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Risk Factors of Heart Disease
January 9th, 2011 | 
Author: Risk Factors
Most scientists agree that these factors affect the risk of coronary heart disease. Some may apply in your case, but others do not.
There are many factors that affect a person’s risk of having heart disease but can not be modified. These include:
Age and heart disease
Heart disease usually occurs in men over 40 years and in women after menopause. Most people who die of heart attacks are more than 65 years of age.
Sex and heart disease
Men have a higher risk of heart attack than women, and men usually have heart attacks at an early age. However, coronary heart disease are not just a male disease. Is the leading cause of death among women and men in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
Heart attack – Risk factors
In principle, any person suffering a heart attack. But there are certain population groups are particularly at risk. These are always different factors and not just one, which determine the personal risk. The more risk factors present, the added risk, however, but rather potentiated. Therefore, it is important to avoid risk factors, provided they can be influenced.
Age: With age, the risk of a heart attack. Like all organs in our body are also subject to the blood vessels of an entirely natural process of aging. As early as the third decade of life is a slow hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis) that affects everyone. Everyone has therefore aged more or less pronounced arteriosclerosis. This increases the risk of heart attack. The vast majority of people die of a heart attack, is older than 65 years.
Gender: In general, men and women are equally at risk of suffering a heart attack. Depending on age, however, show different weights: How middle-aged men have a significantly higher risk of heart attack than women. For pre-menopausal women have the female sex hormones, the estrogens, a relative protection against coronary heart disease (CHD). The hormones protect the vessels by the “good” HDL cholesterol in the blood and increase the proportion of harmful LDL cholesterol can fall of. Also, the blood pressure and blood clotting influence of estrogen positive. However, dying women, aged suffer a heart attack, because twice as often as men. In women of childbearing age increases the contraceptive pill, particularly in relation to smoking, the risk of heart attack at a young age. Statistics show: While the incidence of heart attacks as men has remained the same at, suffer more and more younger women between 40 and 60 years of a heart attack.
Ethnicity: Who, parents or grandparents has siblings who are suffering a coronary heart disease or heart attack had one risk, even it is to suffer greatly increases its. And if close relatives before age 60 Years have suffered a heart attack, it must be assumed that genetic factors play an important role. 2003 U.S. scientists succeeded in identifying a gene that is Heruinfarkten work with. By the mutant MEF2A gene arterial walls is impaired and the protection of deposits encouraged, restricted flow of blood and a heart attack may be the result. People with a genetic predisposition should be examined, even if no complaints have so far occurred. Read the rest of this entry »
Risk Factors of Heart Disease
There are many factors that affect a person’s risk of having heart disease but can not be modified.These include:
Age and heart disease
Heart disease usually occurs in men over 40 years and in women after menopause. Most people who die of heart attacks are more than 65 years of age.
Sex and heart disease
Men have a higher risk of heart attack than women, and men usually have heart attacks at an early age. However, coronary heart disease are not just a male disease. Is the leading cause of death among women and men in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »