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Risk of heart disease starts with the risk factors in middle-aged

January 25, 2012 (Dallas, Texas) - An analysis of 18 Postgrad confirm that the differences in risk factor burden in middle-aged translate into large differences in the lives of the risk of heart disease and blood vessels [1]. "The current model when we think of prevention is to assess the risk over the next 10 years using something like the degree of risk Framingham ... and supposed to guide decision-making process," senior author Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones (Northwestern University, said Chicago,  IL) heartwire.  "This approach is quite true, but this is an incomplete representation of the risk to our patients." New results of the project life risk of cardiovascular gathering, which was published in the January 26, 2012 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, found that the risk in people in their 40s or 50S with risk factors and one or two, such as high blood pressure or high cholesterol in the blood ladders  sharply over their lives.  "So there is a separa