Risk Factors/ Primary Prevention

 

 

                                                               Risk Factors/ Primary Prevention

1. Current smokers (any tobacco in the last 12 months)

2. Diabetes

3. Hypertension

4. Abdominal obesity (waist:hip ratio: in men >0.95, and in women 0.90)

5. Apo-B:Apo-A1 ratio (normal ratio 0.8–1.0)

6. Inadequate daily consumption of fruit and vegetables

7. Psychosocial factors: combination of depression, work or home stress, financial stress or one or more life events.

8. Exercise <4 h/week

9. Alcohol intake (<three times/week).

 

Acute MI:  Pathophysiology

•         Acute plaque fissuring and rupture

•         Superimposed thrombus

•         Transient or permanent occlusion