What are the major risk factors for the development of coronary heart disease?

The main risk factors for the development of coronary heart diseaseare categorized into modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors.

1, modifiable risk factors are:

High blood pressure, dyslipidemia, high total cholesterol or high LDL cholesterol, high triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol, overweight/obesity, hyperglycemia/diabetes, poor lifestyle including smoking, irrational diet, high fat, high cholesterol, high calories, etc., lack of physical activity, excessive alcohol consumption, and psychosocial factors.

2. Unmodifiable risk factors include:

Gender, age, and family history. In addition, related to infections, such as cytomegalovirus, Chlamydia pneumoniae, Helicobacter pylori.

Extended information:

Coronary heart disease is one of the most common cardiovascular diseases, a serious threat to the health of human life and is recognized as a physical and mental disease. Anxiety and depression symptoms are common in patients with coronary heart disease, and these negative psychological stresses can produce cardiovascular disease symptoms as well as being important risk factors for coronary heart disease.

The sympathetic nerves of patients with anxiety and depression are easily excited, prompting the secretion of catecholamines, a blood pressure-boosting substance, which in turn leads to constriction of coronary arteries, activation of platelets, and an increase in aggregation, all of which can trigger and exacerbate angina pectoris attacks.

In fact, the anxiety and depression disorder patients themselves is also a high incidence of cardiovascular disease, so the patient for chest pain, in addition to solve the coronary artery disease itself ischemia caused by the symptoms, the treatment of anxiety and depression symptoms is also an important work, because a good psychological state is conducive to vascular diastasis, conducive to the treatment of coronary artery disease angina pectoris.

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