Risk Factors of Coronary Hearth Disease (CHD)

3 categories of Coronary Hearth Disease (CHD) risk factors:

1. Causative risk factors

• Cigarette smoking
• Elevated blood preassure
• Elevated serum total cholesterol or elevated serum LDL cholesterol
• Low serum HDL cholesterol
• Diabetes
• Advancing age

2. Conditional risk factors

• Serum trygliserides
• Smal low-density lipoprotein particles
• Serum lipoprotein
• Serum homocysteine
• Factor promoting blood coagulation
• Inflammantory makers 

3. Predisposing risk factor

• Overweight and obesity
• Abdominal obesity
• Physical inactivity
• Family history of premature coronary heart disease
• Socioeconomic factors
• Behavioral factors (e.g, stress)
• Insulin resistance