February is American Heart Month — a good time to know what’s at stake in terms of your cardiovascular health. For women over age 50, a few factors regarding heart health deserve a little more ...

There are risk factors for heart disease that you have control over and others that you don’t. Uncontrollable risk factors for heart disease include: Being male ...

While medical advances have helped people live longer with cardiovascular diseases, many of the risk factors that lead to these diseases continue to grow. Fueled by ongoing increases in high blood ...

To the known risk factors for cardiovascular disease—high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, overweight and obesity, smoking, and physical inactivity—a new one has to be added, clonal ...

Smoking is a well-known risk factor for a variety of cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure. The harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke can damage the heart and blood vessels, leading to ...

Multiple emerging risk factors for cardiovascular disease in women must be recognized and assessed to provide timely diagnosis and treatment, according to Dipti N. Itchhaporia, MD, an ...

The lifetime risk of cardiovascular disease was 24% (95% confidence interval [CI], 21 to 30) among women and 38% (95% CI, 30 to 45) among men for whom all five risk factors were present.

All five risk factors combined amount to 57.2% of women’s cardiovascular risk and to 52.6% of men’s. Thus, a substantial share of cardiovascular risk remains unexplained. In comparison, the five risk ...

Mexican Americans were found to have lower rates of insurance (43.2%), which “could partly explain their increased risk for CVD and cardiometabolic risk factors,” they wrote.

Are cardiovascular risk factors linked to migraine? Date: July 31, 2024 Source: American Academy of Neurology Summary: Having high blood pressure, specifically high diastolic blood pressure, was ...