What patients get coronary heart disease?

Many: Many different risk factors can lead to cad-some changeable, others not. Examples you can do something about include: smoking/tobacco, diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol (& related) abnormalities, lack of exercise, obesity. Risks you can't change: family history, genetics, gender. Many people can get it-even those who don't "look" like they should, so get regular, thorough, proactive evals.

Everyone: Elderly, diabetics, hypertensives, smokers, those at genetic risk, hyperlipidemia, sedentary life style, african americans, armenians.