American scientists have identified the relationship between the likelihood of coronary heart disease and risk factors - smoking, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and hypertension.

Contrary to popular belief that more than half of people with coronary heart disease have not had a single risk factor for its development, US scientists have identified a direct relationship between the likelihood of developing this disease and the four most frequent risk factors. The results of this study are published in the August issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

"We found that most people are exposed to the most common risk factors for developing coronary heart disease (coronary heart disease), and we need to focus more on controlling already established predisposing factors of the disease than on finding new causes for its development," states one of the researchers, Dr. Alan R. Dyer (Dr. Alan R. Dyer) The study encompassed more than 122,000 patients with reliable signs of coronary (ischemic) heart disease. Approximately 85-90% of them had at least one risk factor. Somewhat lower, these indicators were found in older people, men over 65 and women older than 75 years, in which risk factors were present in less than 80% of cases.

In the case of a hereditary predisposition to coronary heart disease or obesity, only 8. 5% of women and 10. 7% of men did not have any of the listed risk factors. Experts believe that men aged 50 and women aged 55 who have at least one of the listed risk factors have a 10% chance of developing a coronary heart disease. In this regard, if they discover one or more risk factors, practitioners are advised to more closely examine patients for coronary heart disease.

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