Elevated risk factors linked to major cardiovascular disease events across a lifetime, January 25, 2012 News Release - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

This National Institutes of Health-supported study used health data from 257,384 people and was the first to look simultaneously at multiple risk factors for cardiovascular disese across age, sex, race, and birth generation.The risk equates to a summation of effects, many of which are avoidable.