“New Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors” by AJM Editor-in Chief Joseph S. Alpert, MD was originally published in the April 2023 issue of The American Journal of Medicine.
Major coronary risk factors include smoking, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, age, obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, and a positive family history for premature manifestations of coronary artery disease, such as an acute myocardial infarction. In recent years, several new risk factors have been identified. Some risk factors are quite unusual, such as a history of premature birth. Recognizing the presence of one or more of these new risk factors should trigger attempts by the clinician to minimize more traditional major risk factors …
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