As the name implies, cardiovascular risk factors are factors that increase the occurrence of cardiovascular disease, i.e. the presence of certain factors that make cardiovascular disease susceptible to occur. Currently, the following cardiovascular risk factors are recognized: 1. gender and age. As you know, the occurrence of cardiovascular disease is associated with increasing age, and men over 55 years of age and women over 60 years of age are at high risk for the occurrence of cardiovascular disease. 2, genetics. Genetics and the occurrence of cardiovascular disease is also closely related, we can see many such examples: in a family, the father or mother and siblings, there are often a number of people suffering from hypertension, followed by coronary heart disease, stroke, etc.. This is determined by genetics, I believe that with the development of medicine, some disease-causing genes will eventually be removed or changed. 3, smoking. Smoking can increase blood pressure, heart rate, peripheral vascular resistance, increased catecholamines, increased tendency to clot, etc., the population 10-year mortality rate increased by 20%. Japanese scholar Masahiko Ishizawa investigated 26 male hypertensive patients age of onset, the amount of smoking a day, smoking time and comorbidities, that smoking is more harmful to human arteries, the increase in smoking can make hypertension and atherosclerosis further deterioration. 4, overweight or obese. U.S. research suggests that obesity is a risk factor for the occurrence of secondary coronary events in elderly patients with coronary heart disease, abdominal obesity in particular. 2004, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Bureau of Statistics announced the “status of nutrition and health of the Chinese population” shows that China’s adult overweight rate of 22.8%, the obesity rate of 7.1%, the estimated number of 200 million and more than 60 million respectively. The prevalence of obesity is expected to increase significantly in the future. In our country also has a thousand gold is difficult to buy the old thin proverb. 5, lack of activity and diet structure is not reasonable. Lack of physical activity, high dietary energy, high fat and overweight, obesity, diabetes and the occurrence of dyslipidemia is closely related; high salt diet and the risk of hypertension is closely related; drinking alcohol and hypertension and the risk of dyslipidemia is closely related. In particular, it should be noted that people with high fat intake and low physical activity have the highest chance of suffering from the various chronic diseases mentioned above. 6, hypertension. The prevalence of hypertension in adults in China is 18.8%, and it is estimated that there are 160 million hypertensive people in the country, which has become an important disease that seriously threatens the health of our people. Hypertension is not only an independent disease, but also an important risk factor for strokes, coronary heart disease, renal failure and fundus lesions, and is often accompanied by chronic diseases such as diabetes. 7, hyperglycemia and diabetes. Diabetes is prone to microvascular damage and can also cause macroangiopathy. Blood glucose level is a continuous risk factor, even if the elevated blood glucose has not yet reached the diagnostic standard of diabetes (7.0 mmoL/L), there is already a chance to cause vascular disease, so we should actively control the elevated blood glucose, generally fasting blood glucose does not exceed 5.6 mmoL/L is appropriate. 8. Dyslipidemia. As a causative factor of atherosclerosis has long been proven. Dyslipidemia includes elevated LDL cholesterol, total cholesterol, triglycerides and reduced HDL cholesterol. The prevalence of dyslipidemia among adults in China is 18.6%, and the estimated number of dyslipidemia patients nationwide is 160 million. The different types of dyslipidemia are: hypercholesterolemia 2.9%, hypertriglyceridemia 11.9%, and low HDL 7.4%. Another 3.9% had borderline elevated blood cholesterol. Among the above risk factors, gender, age and genetic factors are inherent and cannot be changed, but some other risk factors can be intervened through lifestyle changes or medication to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, and this is what the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine says that the top doctor treats the disease before it occurs.