Major Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease
- 20 August 2003
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA)
- Vol. 290 (7) , 947-949
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.290.7.947
Abstract
Conventional wisdom (or misconception) holds that the 4 major modifiable traditional cardiovascular risk factors—smoking, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia—account for "only 50%" of those who go on to develop coronary heart disease (CHD),1,2 even though the original source of this claim is not well documented. Thus, over the past decade, a search to discover novel markers and other nontraditional risk factors to assess cardiovascular risk has come to the forefront.Keywords
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