All our articles on risk factors

Smoking, high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, stress, a sedentary lifestyle, menopause: cardiovascular risk factors add up and reinforce one another, and 9 women out of 10 have at least two of them.
Knowing them is already the first step to acting on them.

Cardiovascular Prevention: Lifestyle Changes

Cardiovascular risk factors: gender differences

According to the World Health Organization, cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death worldwide. They are responsible for more deaths among women than breast cancer, lung cancer and chronic lung disease combined. In France, ACF likes to highlight the 33 daily deaths from breast [...]

What is the optimal LDL cholesterol target to aim for during treatment for established atherosclerotic disease?

Background: In patients with atherosclerosis-related cardiovascular disease (CVD), strategies to lower LDL cholesterol (the “bad” cholesterol) have become increasingly stringent in line with both European and American guidelines. Therapeutic targets have recently been lowered, shifting from a [...]

Cardiovascular risk factors weaken coronary artery plaques

In the event of a myocardial infarction, currently referred to as Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS), the degree of obstruction of the coronary artery in question is a very important factor in the occurrence of the accident: The more the artery is narrowed by atherosclerotic plaque, known as stenosis, the [...]

Assessing lipid-related cardiovascular risk: which assays to use?

Routine lipid monitoring studies LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) (the bad cholesterol that infiltrates the artery wall), non-HDL cholesterol (non-HDL-C), Apoprotein B (Apo B) and sometimes a marker of inflammation: C-reactive protein (CRP). Lipoprotein (a): Lp(a) has already been mentioned, and the question [...]

Omega 3 - Atherosclerosis - Cardiovascular Prevention

There are 3 omega-3s! Alpha-linolenic acid or ALA is the only essential omega-3. It is the plant form and is transformed in the body into EPA: eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Dietary omega-3s have a protective effect Data show that a diet rich in omega-3 is beneficial to heart [...]

Non-HDL Cholesterol

Lipidology, the specialty that deals with lipids, is an ever-evolving discipline, and not just because of the many new treatments on the horizon. Patients have (for many) understood the notion of "good" and "bad" cholesterol without really knowing how to distinguish them on their test results. We [...]

Complementary risk factors

The classic risk factors spontaneously spring to mind: sedentary lifestyle, smoking, poor diet, hypertension, diabetes, cholesterol... Specific risk factors are beginning to be taken more into account: age of first menstrual period, contraception, nome of pregnancy, hypertension during pregnancy, [...]