Risk Factors and Heart Disease Risk factors are conditions that increase your risk for developing heart disease. Some risk factors can be changed and others cannot. In general, the more risk factors you have, the greater your chance of developing heart disease. Fortunately, there are things you can do to address most of the risk factors for heart disease. The risk factors that you cannot control include:
The known risk factors for heart disease that you can do something about include:
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