| 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.
To give you a rough idea, the distribution of these risk factors is mentioned below:
Habits and Lifestyle, Psychosocial |
54 |
Physical and Biochemical |
16 |
Serum / Blood Measurements |
44 |
Medical conditions or Diseases |
45 |
Dietary deficiency (inverse association) |
23 |
Dietary excess (negative association) |
21 |
Constitutional, demographic |
16 |
Blood Clotting (Platelet) Disorders |
16 |
Environmental |
5 |
Drugs |
6 |
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