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  • Who Are We?
    • Mission
  • ELIPS® The Program
    • Interactive fresco
    • Pamphlets for Practical Health Advice
    • Lexicon of heart disease
  • Heart attack : an emergency
    • What are the symptoms and what actions must be taken ?
    • Management
    • After the intervention
    • When and how to regain a normal life?
    • How to Avoid a Recurrence?
    • Role and function of the heart
  • Atherosclerosis: A Chronic Disease
    • What are the risk factors for atherosclerosis?
      • Smoking Tobacco
      • High blood pressure
      • Diabetes mellitus
      • Cholesterol
      • Excess weight
      • Sedentary lifestyle
      • Stress
  • Treatment and medical follow up
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    • How to prevent or avoid a recurrence?
      • Nutrition and cardiovascular health
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    • Motivational interviewing
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1205 Geneva
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  • +41 (0)22 372 75 31

What are the risk factors for atherosclerosis?

There are cardiovascular risk factors that can be modified :

  • Tobacco smoking
  • High blood pressure
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Hypercholesterolemia
  • Excess weight
  • A sedentary lifestyle
  • Stress

Other risk factors cannot be modified : age, male gender and genetic risk factors

Calculate your cardiovascular risk (FR)

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Evaluate your cardiovascular risk
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Last update : 17/05/2024
 
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