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Risk Factors for Peripheral Vascular Disease
What Are the Risk Factors for Peripheral Vascular Disease?
A risk factor is anything that may increase a person's chance of developing a disease. It may be an activity, diet, family history, or many other things.
Risk factors for peripheral vascular disease include factors which can be changed or treated and factors that cannot be changed. The same risk factors that may contribute to a heart attack or stroke are the same for peripheral arterial disease.
Risk factors that cannot be changed include the following:
- Age (especially older than 50)
- History of heart disease
- Male gender
- Diabetes mellitus (type 1 diabetes)
- Postmenopausal women
- Family history of dyslipidemia (elevated lipids in the blood, such as cholesterol), hypertension, or peripheral vascular disease
- Family history of atherosclerosis
Risk factors that may be changed or treated include:
- Coronary artery disease
- Impaired glucose tolerance
- Dyslipidemia
- Hypertension (high blood pressure)
- Obesity
- Physical inactivity
- Smoking or use of tobacco products
- Hyperlipidemia (high blood cholesterol)
Those who smoke or have diabetes mellitus have the highest risk of complications from peripheral vascular disease, because these risk factors also cause impaired blood flow.
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