Risk factors for heart disease
Risk factors for pulmonary embolus (blood clot to the lung)
Risk factors for aortic dissection
- Smoking
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Diabetes
- Family history
- Prolonged inactivity such as bed rest, long car or airplane trips
- Recent surgery
- Fractures
- Birth control pill use (particularly if the patient smokes cigarettes)
- Cancer
- High blood pressure
- Marfan syndrome
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Cocaine use
- Pregnancy
