Your general health, everyday habits, and family health history can affect your risk for heart disease. Although you can control some of these risk factors, like your habits, others, like your age or race and ethnicity, can't be controlled. The more risk factors you have for heart disease, the higher your risk.
The Office on Women's Health is grateful for the medical review in 2015 by:
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute staff
Harlan Krumholz, M.D., Cardiologist, Director, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital
Rachel Dreyer, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate in Medicine (Cardiology), Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale University
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