What are modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease?

What are some modifiable risk factors which increase risk of cardiovascular disease? Yeah, so as we discussed cardiovascular disease is narrowing inside the heart arteries or plaque build up within the heart arteries and that's down the plaque is cholesterol plaque. So when cholesterol is very high in the blood system it's obviously flowing through the arteries, and it can stick onto the vessel, and that can build up and form a narrowing in the artery. If that narrowing completely blocks the vessel, that is when you get a heart attack. You can also have a partial narrowing, but then clot comes and forms, a blood clot comes and forms on that narrowing, and that is again a heart attack, how you can have a heart attack. If it's just a slight narrowing or if there is a narrowing in the vessel and it's a significant narrowing but not a complete blockage, that can cause angina, the sort of chest pain or chest tightness that you hear people describe about. things that would increase your risk of cardiovascular disease or coronary artery disease and you know of course similar story with arteries elsewhere so for example in the brain causing stroke and things like that the things that increases the narrowing in the arteries is of course if you have a higher concentration of cholesterol in the blood then of course it's more likely to stick onto the vessel because there's more floating around them in the blood we said that cholesterol sits on top of the artery sits on the lining of the arteries. So you can imagine if that lining of the artery is unhealthy, it's again more likely to predispose cholesterol to stick onto it. So you have a rough abraded surface or an unhealthy lining of the vessel, you're more likely for cholesterol to stick onto it. So again the real question is what can make your endothelial lining unhealthy? And that is things like a sedentary lifestyle, because you get less regeneration of the endothelial lining, smoking disrupts the endothelial lining, hypertension of course causes extra strain on the vessels makes the lining of the vessel more unhealthy. Diabetes, again, you get cross linkages of sugars and so the lining of the arteries is more unhealthy. So all of those types of risk factors that people will be very familiar with, diabetes, hypertension, sedentary lifestyles, smoking, high cholesterol, all those things increase your risk of coronary artery disease or cardiovascular disease.