The most common cause of ischaemic heart diseases (IHD) is atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries. Risk factors for the development of coronary heart disease (CHD) can be preventable and non-preventable. The aim of the study was to determine the frequency of individual ...
NUTRITION METABOLISM AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASESPostiglione A, Pauicos, Lewis B et al.: New and candidate risk factors for coronary heart disease. Nutr. Metab. Cardiovascular disease 4 223-56,1994.Postiglione A, Panico S, Lewis B (1994) New and candidate risk factors for coronary heart disease...
Other Risk Factors Predisposing risk factors Obesity Abdominal obesity Physical inactivity Family history of premature coronary heart disease Ethnic characteristics Psychosocial factors *These risk factors are defined as major risk factors by the AHA . Cont…. Conditional risk factors Elevated serum triglycer...
Heart disease, also calledcardiovascular disease, is the leading cause of death in the United States, where more than 600 000 people die of heart diseases each year. The most common form of heart disease iscoronary heart disease(CHD). This primarily involves blockages in one or more of the ...
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in Latin America, with ischemic heart disease as the principal cause in most countries. Risk factors for cardiovascular disease are highly prevalent in the region, but there are international variations in the pattern and level of risk factors....
Mortality from coronary heart disease in the Tecumseh study. Long-term effect of diabetes mellitus, glucose tolerance and other risk factors Am J Epidemiol, 121 (1985), pp. 541-547 Google Scholar 60. The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Research Group The effect of intensive treatment of...
Obesity is an independent risk factor for CAD and also increases the risk of developing other CAD risk factors, including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes mellitus.[29][30][31] One recent study indicated that obese patients were twice as likely to have coronary heart disease (hazard rat...
Both diseases are associated with sim... AS Schaefer,GM Richter,B Groessner-Schreiber,... - 《Plos Genetics》 被引量: 305发表: 2009年 Body mass index and metabolic risk factors for coronary heart disease in women Prospective epidemiological studies demonstrate an increase in coronary heart ...
risc factorscoronary heart diseaseThe coronary heart disease (CHD) is a leading cause of lethality in both sexes. The risk for development of CHD is 2-4 times higher in non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) than in nondiabetics, and annual rate of fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular...
CORONARY HEART DISEASE RISK FACTORS IN A RANDOM SAMPLE OF ATHENIAN ADULTS THE ATHENS STUDY 1 Risk factors for cardiovascular diseases not previously investigated in Greece were studied in a random sample of 4,097 Athenian adults. Mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures increased with age in both...