I don’t know if this goes here since its a medical question or if this is a GQ.
I think there are something like 80 risk factors, but when I look online I mostly just see the same handful over and over again. There are the obvious ones like
high LDL cholesterol
low HDL cholesterol
high triglycerides
obesity
poor diet
old age
hypertension
AMAB
smoking
being sedentary
excess alcohol use
family history
stress
type 2 diabetes
But there seem like there are a lot of other less well known risk factors too
sleep apnea
being non-white
loneliness
low socioeconomic status
air pollution
gut microbiome
gingivitis
various STDs
vitamin D levels
magnesium intake
homocysteine levels
coffee intake
waist to height ratio
Is there an exhaustive, all inclusive list anywhere?
Beyond that, one of the things I’ve found about this is that there’s no actual published data for the layman giving you relative risk or controllability of many of those things.
I mean, the obvious ones can be summed up as:
Don’t smoke
Don’t be fat
Get Exercise
Eat lots of vegetables
Don’t eat a lot of red meat
Those should take care of a lot of the others- microbiome, high triglycerides, nutrient levels, cholesterol (to some extent, anyway).
But just how important is flossing your teeth to heart health? Or what are the variations in innate levels? For example, my cholesterol isn’t really an issue for me, but I know people who are in better shape and (AFAIK) eat about the same as I do, and their LDL cholesterol is like twice mine. There’s some kind of genetic thing going on, and I don’t know how much control anyone has over any of that.