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

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.

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