Updated Review on Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Cardiovascular risk factors lead to the development of cardiovascular disorders from early life. Hence, it is vital to enforce preventive techniques addressing the burden of cardiovascular disease as early as conceivable. An interdisciplinary approach to the estimation of risk and prevention of vascular events should be adopted at each level of health care. In the past few years, there have been some major advances in this field, with the development of various new markers of heightened cardiovascular risk in particular. With this book, we present some of the emerging concepts and risk elimination factors regarding cardiovascular diseases. It covers some significant preventive measures targeted at various age groups from adolescents to old age and also includes an analysis of cardiovascular risk assessment in diabetes and kidney diseases.