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Physical inactivity, smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol play a greater role than genetics in many young patients with heart disease, according to research presented today at ESC Congress 2019 together with the World Congress of Cardiology. (1) The findings show that healthy behaviours should be a top priority for reducing heart disease even in those with a family history of early onset.
Read more at: https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases/lifestyle-not-genetics-explains-most-premature-heart-disease