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Cholesterol - Heart disease risk factors
Behavioural risk factors
Last updated: Thursday, November 01, 2007
This is the most important category of risk factors for two reasons – firstly, you can modify them and secondly, they’re the most common.

That means that you can do something about these risk factors and reduce your chances of developing atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease. It is in everybody’s interest to promote a low-CAD-risk lifestyle since the health costs of these disorders are enormous.

 
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The most important risk factors are:

  • cigarette smoking
  • overeating
  • the wrong kind of food and
  • lack of physical activity

This is followed by:

  • stress and
  • alcohol abuse in many individuals

 
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