What Is Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease?
7. Who’s At Risk
Nobody is completely safe from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, but there are some people who are more likely to develop the condition than others are. Those include people who don’t eat a healthy diet, people who don’t get sufficient exercise, and people who are obese.
Other factors include people with medical reasons for having high cholesterol and a high blood pressure. People with diabetes are also at higher risk, and people that smoke are also more likely to develop the condition. Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is also more likely to develop in people when there is a history of the condition in their family.
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