{"id":16104,"date":"2024-11-07T09:01:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T10:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16104"},"modified":"2024-11-07T10:29:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T10:29:51","slug":"heart-disease-8-factors-that-raise-your-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16104","title":{"rendered":"Heart Disease: 8 Factors That Raise Your Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Doctors are thinking differently about what drives cardiovascular issues. It\u2019s no longer just about blood pressure and cholesterol.<\/p>\n

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Heart disease is the leading killer of men and women in America \u2014 and it has been for more than 100 years, despite major gains in public health.<\/p>\n

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\u2019 individual risk \u2014 and to guide treatment recommendations. But in recent years, experts have started thinking more broadly about what drives cardiovascular disease risk.<\/p>\n

With smoking on the decline, and with better cholesterol and blood pressure treatments now available, death rates from heart attack and stroke<\/a> have fallen in the last half-century, said Dr. Sadiya Khan, a preventive cardiologist at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. But several factors now threaten to slow \u2014 or even undo \u2014 that progress, including the rise of metabolic conditions like obesity and diabetes and increasing rates of heart failure.<\/p>\n

In recognition of these changes, the American Heart Association last year released a new risk calculator, called PREVENT<\/a>, that includes measures of metabolic and kidney health and makes it possible for doctors to predict the risk of heart failure in addition to that of heart attack and stroke.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t think the main risk factors for cardiovascular disease have necessarily changed,\u201d said Dr. Michael Nanna, an interventional cardiologist at Yale School of Medicine. \u201cBut I think there\u2019s an increased recognition of a broader set of risk factors than we as cardiologists thought about traditionally.\u201d<\/p>\n