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The risk factors for heart disease are :
1.- Dyslipidemia (cholesterol >200mg/dL, LDL>130, HDL<40).
2.- Smoking (habitual tobacco use).
3.- High Blood Pressure (>140/90).
4.- Physical inactivity (less than 30min, moderate intensity, 3X/week).
5.- Obesity/Overweight (BMI > 25).
6.- Diabetes Mellitus.
7.- Diet (Adverse Dietary Pattern -e.g. high saturated fat-).
8.- Other: Genetics (+Family History of Coronary Heart Disease), Male gender, stress.
Risk determinants in addition to LDL-cholesterol include the presence or
absence of CHD, other clinical forms of atherosclerotic disease, and the
major risk factors other than LDL (see Table 3). (LDL is not counted
among the risk factors in Table 3 because the purpose of counting those
risk factors is to modify the treatment of LDL.) Based on these other risk
determinants, ATP III identifies three categories of risk that modify the
goals and modalities of LDL-lowering therapy. Table 4 defines these
categories and shows corresponding LDL-cholesterol goals.
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