Main risk factors for cardiovascular diseases | Relationship | References | |
Traditional | Smoking |
| [1] [6] [16] [17] [18] [20] [21] [22] |
Obesity | Relation to dyslipidemia. Controversial: protective effect, deleterious effect on the disease’s severity. | ||
Sedentary behavior | Correlates to the impairment of microvascular endothelium-dependent vasodilation. | ||
Dyslipidemia |
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Non-traditional | Disease’ chronic and systemic inflammatory process | Involving the presence of pro-inflammatory cytokines, chemokines, endothelial adhesion molecules, vascular endothelial growth factors, C-reactive protein, and platelet-derived growth factors. Contributes to insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, obesity, hiperhomocysteinemia. | [17] [23] [25] [26] [27] [28] |