title: [Cardiovascular diseases and risk factors].
abstract: The main risk factors for cardiovascular disease which are amenable to intervention for prevention are described. These include smoking, hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, obesity etc. These risk factors can be ranked in order of importance according to the ratio of the attributable risk to the prevalence of the exposure to the factor in the population.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze di Sanità Pubblica G. Sanarelli, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: De Luca D'Alessandro
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boccini
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D006937:Hypercholesterolemia / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors