By far the best way to address this problem is through prevention. The key to prevention is understanding the risk factors that lead to cardiovascular disease and the underlying biology of the interactions. This article reviews these risk factors, laying the foundation for prevention. 关键词: ...
For years, doctors have known that high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and smoking raise the risk of cardiovascular disease. They typically use these factors to calculate patients’ individual risk and to guide treatment recommendations. But in recent years...
Factors that influence in the adherence to treatments in patients with risk for cardiovascular diseaseArleth Herrera Lian
Conventional wisdom (or misconception) holds that the 4 major modifiable traditional cardiovascular risk factors—smoking, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia—account for "only 50%" of those who go on to develop coronary heart disease (CHD),1,2 even though the original source ...
Objective: Our aim was to investigate risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in a population-based Brazilian cohort. Design and methods: A cohort study was conducted with 1091 individuals identified through multi-stage probability sampling in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Risk factors were investigated...
Conclusions: Despite a diet high in saturated fat, Fulani adults have a lipid profile indicative of a low risk of cardiovascular disease. This finding is likely due to their high activity level and their low total energy intake. 展开
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the main cause of premature death and disability in the general population, and according to the World Health Organization, the incidence of CVD is increasing throughout the world. Conventional risk factors that contribute to the occurrence and worsening of CVD have ...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a leading cause of death worldwide, but age-standardized CVD death rates are decreasing steadily. In this Review, Ezzati and colleagues use the available epidemiological data to examine regional and global changes in
Cardiovascular disease risk factors in HIV patients--association with antiretroviral therapy. Results from the DAD study. To determine the prevalence of risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) among HIV-infected persons, and to investigate any association between such ri... N Friismøller,R ...
Introduction Psychological factors, including stress at work or in family life collectively, may play a role in the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD).1 However, stress is self-reported and could be subjective and therefore hard to measure in a standardized manner. Accordingly, the associat...