Key result
Review outlines traditional and emerging CV risk factors and primary prevention strategies in young adults.
Why the study?
Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality have risen steadily in young adults, accompanied by an increasing prevalence of traditional and age-specific risk factors.
This review highlights the rising cardiovascular risk in young adults, emphasizing gender-specific differences in risk factor exposure and the need for targeted primary prevention strategies.
May prompt earlier risk assessment in young adults; leaves open optimal gender-specific prevention strategies.
A steady rise in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality has been observed in young adults within the last decades. This trend corresponds to an increasing prevalence of traditional cardiovascular risk factors such as obesity and diabetes mellitus type 2 among young adults living in developed countries. Moreover, age-specific risk factors, such as substance abuse, contraceptive medication, and pregnancy-related diseases also correlate with an increased incidence of cardiovascular diseases. In this review, we discuss the available data for young adults on the epidemiology and the rationale for the causality of traditional and newly emerging risk factors of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases. We focus on gender-related differences in the exposure to these risk factors, investigate the recent data regarding screening and risk stratification in the young adult population, and describe the current state of the art on lifestyle and therapeutic intervention strategies in the primary prevention setting.
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Antza et al. (2023) conducted a review in Cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular risk factors was evaluated. This review discusses the epidemiology, gender differences, and causality of traditional and emerging cardiovascular risk factors in young adults, alongside current primary prevention strategies.
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