Liver and heart factors also play an important role.
In fact, the way the couple interacted was as important a heart risk factor as whether they smoked or had high cholesterol, says Timothy W. Smith, a psychology professor at the University of Utah, who presented the study last year to the American Psychosomatic Society.
Objective To describe the relationship between socio-demographic factors, heart disease risk factors, psychological symptoms and the use of hormone replacement therapy by English women.
For example, just as obesity, diet, exercise, and genetics are all risk factors for heart disease, ideational factors are "risk factors" for the positive behavior of family planning.
Presence of heart risk factors and progression of the disease were defined in the form of risk factor, indicator attribute, and time attribute in the dataset.
Those with previous heart risk factors were more vulnerable, but the odds increased even for those with no coronary history.
It took decades to translate early findings for heart risk factors into lifesaving cholesterol drugs.
Some studies have linked consumption to heart risk factors, such as raised cholesterol or blood pressure, while others suggest the beverage may offer some heart protection.
For example, research shows that fewer vegetarians than meat-eaters have metabolic syndrome, a condition where you possess three of five heart-risk factors, Everyday Health reported.
Also, he said, the drugs cause the liver to make more cholesterol, another heart attack risk factor.
