Question

What are the intermediate and unknown diet-linked chronic-risk factors of cardiovascular diseases?

Answer 1

They are obesity, hypertension, uncontrolled diabetes etc.

People who consume a lot of fat usually saturated fat may lead to excess storage if these in the adipose tissue. In such cases person may look much fattier and this leads to obesity. In such patients there are chances for the extra cholesterol to stick to the blood vessels making them narrow. So it will be difficult for the pumping of blood and may leads to block is some arteries which gradually creates a cardiovascular disease. These person may have atherosclerosis in such conditions and hypertension may also develop as part of the narrowed blood vessels. The person who consume high sodium may lead to a great risk by developing hypertension and the hyper tension affects the heart by pumping more forceful that at normal situation. This leads to cardiovascular disease such as conjustive heart failure, myocardial infarction etc. People who consume more sugars seems to have elevated blood glucose level as the insulin fails to make the cells consume this extra sugars. As a result this leads to uncontrolled diabetes and the blood pressure elevates and leads to cardiovascular diseases such as heart failure, MI etc.