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Is there more than just high cholesterol, genetics, and high blood pressure involved with heart disease?
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Yes: Diabetes mellitus, smoking, obesity, lack of exercise, stressful life, kidney disease and insufficiency. And the metabolic syndrome which is a cluster of condition that increase your risk of heart disease.
Answered 11/9/2015
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