Non Modifiable Risk Factors of Heart Disease

AGE
The incidence of Heart Disease increases with advancing age but today we are seeing people getting heart attack at a younger age.
SEX
Men are at a greater risk of heart attacks as compared to women but due to excessive stress more women are getting prone to heart diseases.
HERIDITY
People with a strong family history of heart disease are at a greater risk as one cannot change one’s parents. Early prevention can surely decrease the risk.

Risk Factors

Risk factors are the reasons, which lead to or aggravate the deposition of cholesterol or fat in the coronary arteries. If one desires to know the total number of risk factors responsible for the development of Coronary Heart Disease these will amount to hundreds. Williams in 1981 identified 246 risk factors that directly or indirectly lead to the development and onset of heart diseases.Risk factors can be catagories in to types.

1. Non Modifiable Risk Factors.
2. Modifiable Risk Factors.