Ailments and Situations - Heart Attack - The Risk Factors

 

The Risk Factors

Unfortunately, some major risk factors for heart attack cannot be reversed. They are: a history of atherosclerosis in your family, increased age, and being male. "Being male" is not completely truthful. Heart attacks take the lives of just as many women as they do men. However, statistics show that men are susceptible to heart attack at a much younger age than women.

Most major risk factors for heart attack can be controlled. If you smoke, have elevated blood cholesterol levels, have high blood pressure, are physically inactive, or have diabetes (which is often caused by being overweight), your chances of acquiring atherosclerosis rise dramatically. In fact, even if you have not touched one cigarette, your likelihood of being subject to a heart attack increases by eight times if you are physically inactive. Another risk factor of heart attack is your own history of heart trouble. Heart attack considerably weakens your heart, making you susceptible to further heart trouble.

 

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