Here Professor N. Ruparelia discusses the modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors associated with coronary artery disease.
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What are the risk factors for coronary artery disease? With regards to risk factors for coronary disease we often divide these into modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors and what we mean by this are risk factors that we can do something about and others that we are left with. So non-modifiable risk factors include a family history which may mean that a patient or an individual there's slightly higher risk for coronary disease. For example, there's a very strong family history of premature coronary disease. Age, sex are all non-modifiable risk factors. However, there are a number of modifiable risk factors that we can do things about. For example, lifestyle, smoking, regular exercise, lipid profile, blood sugar profile, high blood pressure. so we often assess risk encompassing all of these risk factors so modifiable and non-modifiable but we can of course only address the modifiable risk factors to optimally manage individuals to try and reduce their risk to the lowest possible with regards to progression of disease, the development of de novo disease and reducing the risk of a complication associated with disease.
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