Cardiovascular disease risk denotes the probability that an individual will develop atherosclerotic and related cardiovascular events, estimated from the aggregate of modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors. Established contributors include hypertension, dyslipidaemia, diabetes and insulin resistance, smoking, ob…
Cardiovascular disease risk denotes the probability that an individual will develop atherosclerotic and related cardiovascular events, estimated from the aggregate of modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors. Established contributors include hypertension, dyslipidaemia, diabetes and insulin resistance, smoking, obesity, physical inactivity and unhealthy diet, alongside age, sex, ethnicity and family history; depression and psychosocial stress are increasingly recognized correlates. These factors converge on endothelial dysfunction, arterial inflammation and atherogenesis, and they are combined in multivariable instruments such as the Framingham risk score to guide preventive intervention. Risk stratification underpins primary prevention through lifestyle modification and pharmacotherapy and informs screening and population health strategy. Work in this area covers the mediating role of depressive symptoms between cardiovascular risk factors and health conservation in diabetic elderly people, racial and ethnic differences in Framingham risk score within an NHANES cohort, hypertension in women and optimal timing of obstetric debut, bioinformatic analysis of coronary-disease-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms in atherosclerosis pathogenesis, antioxidant micronutrients in metabolic syndrome, carotid intima-media thickness in relation to reproductive timing, and culturally tailored nutrition and lifestyle intervention to reduce cardiometabolic risk in a migrant population. The journal publishes peer-reviewed clinical, epidemiological and molecular research on cardiovascular risk factors, their mechanisms and their modification.
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