The next step in good cardiovascular health is learning about the risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Risk factors are conditions or behaviors that increase a person's chances of developing a condition. In most cases, the more risk factors a person has, the greater his or her chances of developing the disease. When talking about the common types of cardiovascular disease, some risk factors consistently come up. These risk factors include:
You are obviously not going to be able to change your age, family history, or ethnicity. But you do have control over the rest of these risk factors.
Your Personal Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Health
While the first step in preventing cardiovascular disease may be knowing the risk factors for it, the next step is actually knowing whether you have any of these risk factors, especially the ones that you can control, such as diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and atrial fibrillation (for stroke).
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