[Cardiovascular risk factors in young people].
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) involves several disorders related to the formation and development of atherosclerotic processes. Several risk factors are involved in CVD aetiology; some of them (i.e. age, hypertension, obesity, dislipidemia and diabetes) have been clearly associated, whereas others have a variable level of association. An increase in cardiovascular risk factors has been recently reported in the young population; studies of cardiovascular risk factors in this population have shown that its cardiovascular risk profile could be different from that presented by older populations. This review presents a summary of reported cardiovascular risk factors in the young population and their causes which have been released and indexed in different databases. Most factors discussed are life-habit risk factors and represent direct targets for clinical intervention. We propose that primary CVD prevention should include a more detailed knowledge of the nature of the risk factors concerning the young population and could have a positive impact on CVD prevalence during the next few years.
Sánchez-Contreras
Mónica
M
Centro de Biología Molecular y Biotecnología-CENBIOTEP, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colombia. monimed@utp.edu.co
Moreno-Gómez
Germán A
GA
Marín-Grisales
Marta E
ME
García-Ortiz
Luis H
LH
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D055815:Young Adult