Table 3.

General classification of cardiovascular risk factors.

Group 1: Social determinants	Group 2: Lifestyle factors	Group 3: Biological factors	Group 4: Genetic factors
•Urbanization (rapid, low quality) •Industrialization (unplanned) •Illiteracy •Poverty •Unemployment and working conditions •Housing •Outdoor ambient air pollution •Maternal nutrition •Quality of health system •Political manifesto	•Sedentary lifestyle •Dietary factors •Smoking and tobacco •Alcohol abuse •Indoor air-pollution	•High blood pressure •High LDL cholesterol •Low HDL cholesterol •Triglyceride rich lipoproteins •Lipoprotein(a) •Impaired glucose tolerance •Diabetes •Metabolic syndrome	•Genes related to specific risk factors, e.g., lipid abnormalities, hypertension, diabetes, etc. •Inflammatory and thrombogenic genes •Epigenetic factors