Risk Factors for Heart & Vascular Disease

Lower Your Risk for Heart & Vascular Disease

Understanding the risk factors for cardiovascular disease and making healthy lifestyle choices can reduce your personal risk and help protect you from a heart attack. While certain risk factors, such as family history, age and ethnicity, cannot be changed, most other risk factors can be changed. By making lifestyle changes to avoid adding to risk factors you can lower the overall risk of coronary artery disease. Learn more below about the risk factors for heart disease and how to make heart healthy lifestyle choices.

Risk Factors You Can Change

• High Cholesterol
• Smoking
• High Blood Pressure
• Lack of Exercise
• Diabetes
• Obesity
• Stress
• Hormones

Risk Factors You Cannot Change

• Family History
• Age
• Ethnicity