title: Ask the doctor.  I have a family history of cardiovascular disease.  Although I don't have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, or any other risk factor, I'm concerned about how my cardiologist is screening me, because women can have small-vessel disease and not necessarily arterial disease.  How should I be screened?
authors.forename: Paula A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D002784:Cholesterol; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension; D012307:Risk Factors
chemical_list: D002784:Cholesterol