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Risk factors for atherosclerosis
(also coronary artery disease,
stroke, myocardial infarction, peripheral
vascular disease)
- Age
- not seen in children
- often detectable at 20-30
- Smoking
- 95% of patients with atherosclerosis are heavy smokers (40% in
population at large)
- Faster progression of atherosclerosis
- Greater demands on cardiac output as oxygen in blood reduced
- Hypertension
- Faster progression of atherosclerosis
- Renal Damage
- Increased risk of strokes
- Ventricular hypertrophy
- Diabetes mellitus
- Massively increased progression of atherosclerosis
- Diabetic ulcers
- Neuropathy
- Renal damage
- Hyperlipidaemia
- cholesterol
- triglycerides
- Family History
- polymorphism in ACE gene
- Familial hypercholesterolaemia
- Sex
- More common in males and post-menopausal females
- Increasing age
- Renal failure
- Can lead to hypertension
- Loss of erythropoietin leads to anaemia
- Hypothyroidism
- Transplantation
- Blood coagulation factors
- fibrinogen
- C-reactive protein
- Chlamydia pneumoniae
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