Cardio-vascular diseases and hypertension are highly prevalent medical conditions that significantly diminish individuals’ life quality. Therefore, familiarizing with its risk factors can help medical practitioners to offer targeted solutions for their prevention and ensure better treatment outcomes. The factors that lead to blood vessel and heart conditions are classified into modifiable and non-modifiable factors, depending on individuals’ ability to affect associated outcomes.
The non-modifiable risk factors of hypertension and cardiovascular diseases describe human aspects that cannot be altered or avoided. These include an individual’s ethnicity, age, family medical history, race, and gender (Dimovski et al., 2019). On the other hand, modifiable risks of coronary diseases and high blood pressure refer to the habits and attributes that individuals can change by altering their behaviors or situations (Sandi et al., 2019). In that case, the modifiable hazards of heart comorbidities and hypertension include smoking, sedentary behaviors, lack of exercise and physical activities, high cholesterol intake, obesity, poor dietary practices, and diabetes (Kucia & Hartley, 2022). Hence, it is necessary to observe healthy lifestyle practices to ensure that one does not develop heart diseases and hypertension.
Both modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors of heart disease lead to its development and aggravation. For example, elderly individuals have a higher probability of suffering from hypertension and cardiovascular diseases due to their age and diminished physical activities, thus predisposing them to higher risks than other population groups (Kucia & Hartley, 2022). Therefore, it is necessary to take all these factors into account when designing treatment plans to ensure better outcomes and assure faster recovery. Subsequently, doctors can use the information to spread awareness of how to limit the influence of the conditions’ modifiable risks.
References
Dimovski, K., Orho-Melander, M., & Drake, I. (2019). A favorable lifestyle lowers the risk of coronary artery disease consistently across strata of non-modifiable risk factors in a population-based cohort. BMC Public Health, 19(1), 1-8.
Kucia, A. M., & Hartley, A. (2022). Risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Cardiac Care: A Practical Guide for Nurses, 35-51.
Sandi, M. R., Martini, S., Artanti, K. D., & Widati, S. (2019). The description of modifiable risk factors in coronary heart disease at Dr. Soetomo Regional Public Hospital. Jurnal Berkala Epidemiologi, 7(2), 85-93.