Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals in the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases

Table 1

Cardiovascular risk factors.

Category	Examples
Nonmodifiable risk factors	Advancing age
	Male gender
	Family history/genotype
Metabolic risk factors	Hypertension
	Hyperlipidemia
	Diabetes mellitus
	Metabolic syndrome
	Obesity/overweight
Lifestyle risk factors	Diet
	Smoking
	Physical activity
Novel risk factors	Elevated homocysteine level
	Elevated lipoprotein (a) level
	Small dense LDL-C
	Elevated inflammatory markers levels
	Elevated hemostatic factors levels