title: [Risk factors for arterial disease].
abstract: The risk factors of arterial disease (FREA) predict a future damage over the vascular system of the human body. Its detection are considered a key for the diagnostic as well as for the preventive and even curative strategies. For a long time, scientist considered those factors originated as a consecuence of large studies during the middle of the last century, with current validity up to our days. A simple classification spoke of them as traditionals. Further investigations described the so called new or emergents.factors that where joint together accordingly to their actions: coagulation factors, psicosocial, inflamatories and infectious. A recent classification, taking into account the type of impact, divided them into; causatives, predisposals and conditionals. Also, it was described a mechanism, the oxidative power, with consecuences over the endothelium, in the last part of the process. Before, another mechanism was described: the insulin resistance and the hiperinsulinism, bases for the Metabolic Syndrome, that includes a number of traditional risk factors.
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Madoery
authors.forename: Graciela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rubin
authors.forename: Hugo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Luquez
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Luquez
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cravero
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology*