Men and women have different risk factors for conditions including heart disease and strokes, a study has found.
British research into nearly half a million people has highlighted the risks of lifestyle and health choices.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) includes conditions such as strokes, angina, heart attacks and heart failure, and the NHS says it is the "single biggest condition where lives can be saved by the NHS over the next 10 years".
CVD affects over seven million people in the UK annually, causes one in four premature deaths, and is a significant cause of disability and death.
Key risk factors for heart failure, a form of cardiovascular disease that is increasing in prevalence, differed in men and women in the 468,941 participants across the nine-year study conducted by the University of Glasgow.
Many of the risk factors were identified as "modifiable" - features which people could change in their lifestyle.
Some risks uncovered were commonly known about. For example, risks for women drinking more than 14 units of alcohol a week, those who smoke, and obesity and lack of physical activity.
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