Several health conditions, your lifestyle, and your age and family history can increase your risk for heart disease. These are called risk factors. About half of all Americans (47%) have at least 1 of 3 key risk factors for heart disease: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and smoking.
Risk Factors: Tobacco smoking; Hypertension
More men are living with and dying of CHD than women and have more hospital discharges for CVD and CHD.
the prevalence of CHD is higher in men within each age stratum until after 75 years of age, which may contribute to the perception that heart disease is a man’s disease. Sex differences in CVD and CHD mortality largely reflect sex differences in US demographics. Because female sex is associated with a longer life expectancy than male sex, women constitute a larger proportion of the elderly population in which the prevalence of CVD is greatest.
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