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. 2021 Mar 10;36(1):5–11. doi: 10.15605/jafes.036.01.01

Table 4.

Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in the pediatric population5,6

Traditional Risk Factors Other conditions
Dyslipidemia
  • Familial hypercholesterolemia

Obesity
  • Chronic kidney disease

Diabetes mellitus (Type 1 or 2)
  • Kawasaki disease

Hypertension
  • Childhood cancer

Family history of premature CVD
  • Transplant vasculopathy

Smoke exposure
  • Certain congenital heart disease (e.g., coarctation of the aorta, aortic stenosis)

  • Cardiomyopathy

  • Chronic inflammatory disorders

  • HIV infection

  • Adolescent depressive and bipolar disorders

CVD, cardiovascular disease; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus