Heart Disease Risk Factors WisdomCard™
Our Guides and Physician Review team have organized the Top 10 Health Resources on Heart Disease Risk Factors and compiled helpful research notes below.
Success!
Thanks for helping us improve this WisdomCard. We'll let you know if your resource makes the Top 10!.
Have another great resource to share? Go ahead and nominate another resource!
Nominate a Resource for this WisdomCard™
We have 9 top resources but need 1 more. Are there additional great resources about Heart Disease Risk Factors that we should add here? The OrganizedWisdom team looks forward to reviewing your nomination!
Research Notes on Heart Disease Risk Factors
There are various factors that increase a person's risk of heart disease. Some risk factors such as smoking, high LDL cholesterol, low HDL cholesterol, uncontrolled stress or anger, physical inactivity, and obesity are controllable. Uncontrollable risk factors for heart disease include age, race, family history of heart disease, and being post-menopausal.1 Certain conditions such as uncontrolled diabetes and high blood pressure can also increase the risk of developing heart disease.2
Fast Facts:
- Having a parent or sibling that had a heart or circulatory problem before age fifty-five puts you at an increased risk of heart disease.3
- Four out of every five deaths due to heart disease occur in people over sixty-five years of age.3
- Women who are over thirty-five years of age are at an increased risk of heart disease if they smoke and use birth control pills.3
There's more WisdomCard content below this ad.
Advertisement
Research Notes References
- ↑ WebMD: Risk Factors For Heart Disease
- ↑ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Heart Disease Risk Factors
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Texas Heart Institute: Heart Disease Risk Factors For Adults
About this WisdomCard
- Contributor: Catherine Kowalski
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 21, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic. In addition to filtering out spam and bad links, WisdomCards highlight tips and warnings, such as:
- Guide Favorite
- Guide Warning
- Scroll down to reach relevant content
- Video
- In Memoriam
Help improve this WisdomCard by suggesting great links.
Advertisement
Are You Depressed?
1. Have you been feeling blue, or "down in the dumps"?
About WisdomCard
Meet our contributors and reviewers
- Contributor: Catherine Kowalski
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Factors that increase the risk of developing heart disease, Risk Factors for Heart Disease, Things that increase the risk of heart disease
- Last update: Oct. 21, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
