Abstract

Association of coronary risk factors and behaviours in old age

Author(s): Carlos Alberto Paterno Marchioli

It is known that atherosclerosis is a slow, progressive disease that starts in childhood and usually manifests itself clinically much later, as it has been demonstrated by several authors [1-7], including genetic predisposition, the environment, harmful behaviours and coronary risk factors (RFs) that produce a disease initially asymptomatic. Intimal thickening of the coronary arteries has been found during autopsies performed on infants who died from different causes to less than 1 year of age.