THREE RISK FACTORS THAT CAN'T BE CHANGED IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

The three risk factors that you cannot change are heredity,gender and increasing age.despite the fact that these risk factors cannot be changed,your knowledge that they might be an influence in your life should encourage you to make a more serious commitment to the risk factors you can change.

GENDER.

Young  men have a greater risk of heart disease than young women. Yet when women move through menopause(typically in their thirties or fifties), their rates of heart disease become similar to men's rate. It is thought that women are somewhat more protected  from heart disease than men because of their natural production of the hormone estrogen during their fertile years.

INCREASING AGE.

Heart disease tends to  develop gradually over the course of one’s life. Although we may know of a person or two who experienced a heart attack in their thirties or fifties, most of the serious consequences of heart disease become evident as we age. For example  nearly 85 percent of people who died from heart attack were aged 65 or older.

HEREDITY.

Obviously you have no input in determining whom your biological parents are. Like increasing age and gender, this risk factor cannot be changed.

By the luck of draw, some people are born into families where heart disease has never been a serious problem, whereas others are born into families where heart disease is prevalent.

 Children are said to have a genetic predisposition to develop heart disease as they grow and develop throughout their lives. These people have every reason to be highly motivated to reduce the risk factors they can control.

Race is also a consideration related to heart disease. African Americans have moderately high blood pressure at rates twice that of whites and severe hypertension at rates three times higher than whites.