Nuevos enfoques enfactores de riesgo / Recent advances in risk factors

ABSTRACT

Focusing now the news about cardiovascular risk factors, they should be appreciated with their potential to reach the true value to warrant common benefit desired, not just cardiovascular health, but also as the equity to life quality. So far the advance can be pointed at least with a number of items more number of risk factors identified; additional evidence to increase the cause effect relationship value; better, easier and practical ways to apply them to population as well as to individuals; notable progress in the knowledge of taking decisions as cumulative, not just alternative; and in the way of holistic thinking to approach the welfare to global community as a whole.