... cardiovascular disease, which can include coronary heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease. High cholesterol has also been linked to diabetes and high blood pressure. The main risk associated with high cholesterol is coronary heart disease. Blood cholesterol has a lot to do with the chances of getting heart disease. If cholesterol is too high, it builds up in the walls of your arteries. Over time, this build-up ... (called plaque) causes hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis). Atherosclerosis causes arteries to become narrowed, slowing blood flow to the heart muscle....

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... , there are presumed to be nine major risk influences linked through cardiovascular disease, they are: Hypertension (high blood pressure) - this is the one major risk factor for heart disease by far. If high blood pressure goes poorly treated, the artery walls will become injured, in turn, raising the threat of increasing a blood clot, Radiation therapy - professors from the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, described in the Journal of the American ... . COPD and reduced lung function showed that people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have a substantial possibility of developing h...

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