What are the three risk factors?

What are the three risk factors?

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. Some risk factors for heart disease cannot be controlled, such as your age or family history.

What is hypertension a risk factor for?

Hypertension is an established risk factor for stroke, ischemic heart disease,1,2 and renal dysfunction. The management and prevention of hypertension are important to the prevention of these diseases.

What is high risk blood pressure?

What is high blood pressure (hypertension)?

Blood Pressure Levels
Normal	systolic: less than 120 mm Hg diastolic: less than 80 mm Hg
At Risk (prehypertension)	systolic: 120–139 mm Hg diastolic: 80–89 mm Hg
High Blood Pressure (hypertension)	systolic: 140 mm Hg or higher diastolic: 90 mm Hg or higher

What are the 4 types of risk factors?

3.2 Identification and Classification of Health Risk Factors in Built Environments and Their Parameters

• Biological risk factors,
• Chemical risk factors,
• Physical risk factors, and.
• Psychosocial, personal and other risk factors.

What are the key factors of risk?

The three types of external risks include economic factors, natural factors, and political factors.

• Economic Risk. Economic risk includes changes in market conditions.
• Natural Risk. Natural risk factors include natural disasters that affect normal business operations.
• Political Risk.

What is considered dangerously high blood pressure?

Dangerously high blood pressure is a systolic reading above 170 or 180, or a diastolic reading higher than 100 or 110. Untreated high blood pressure can lead to severe health issues, such as cardiovascular disease and stroke. There are many medications designed to lower blood pressure.

What are the long term effects of hypertension?

Hypertension is associated with a number of serious long-term effects on the body. High blood pressure is a risk factor for the development of heart disease, heart failure, stroke, eye disease, kidney disease including kidney failure and some life-threatening emergencies.

What are the risks of hypertension?

High blood pressure, which is also called hypertension, increases your risk of developing many serious health problems, including heart disease, stroke, and kidney disease.

What are the dangers of high blood pressure?

High blood pressure can enlarge the wall of a weakened artery and cause aneurysm, which can lead to serious internal bleeding, in case of rupture. Another danger of high blood pressure is kidney failure caused by the damage to the large arteries leading to these organs and the smaller blood vessels inside the kidneys.