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6) Age and gender

Cardiovascular diseases are more common in old people since they have less elastic arteries and higher lipid content in their blood which makes it easier to develop atherosclerosis and hypertension with the resultant coronary artery disease and males are more likely to develop heart disease than females since they are more prone to the accumulation of visceral abdominal fat which promotes heart disease substantially.