Does a family history of heart disease increase your risk?
Consultant Cardiologist Ahmed Elgahamaz discusses what having a family history of heart disease means for your own heart health.
If you have a family history of heart disease, this is one of the significant risk factors for you to develop heart disease in the future.
Having a family history does not necessarily mean you will develop heart disease, but it’s a risk.
It’s similar to having diabetes, smoking or high blood pressure. All these are added risk factors that increase the probability of a person developing heart disease in the future…
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Heart disease in the family is certainly something to bear in mind as it increases the probability of you developing heart disease.
I would advise patients with a strong family history of heart disease to take earlier steps to reduce the probability of developing heart disease later on in life. Either by addressing other modifiable risk factors, diet and exercise, reducing the other risk factors like high cholesterol or high blood pressure, so that we can counteract the risk associated with inheriting the bad genes for heart disease.
I strongly urge you to take our heart disease online self-test to assess your risk of developing heart disease in the future. It will take you less than five minutes and will give you a good idea if you are at increased risk and whether or not you need to see a specialist.
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About the cardiologists
The Many Beats team consists of not one, but four highly experienced consultant cardiologists
Dr Navtej Chahal
Consultant Cardiologist
PhD FESC FACC
Navtej is a Consultant Cardiologist at Many Beats. He also consults at the London Northwest NHS Trust and the Royal Brompton Hospital, London having qualified from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Medical School in 2001. He is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London…
Dr Navin Chandra
Consultant Cardiologist
MD, MRCP, MBBS, BSc
Navin is a Consultant Cardiologist at Many Beats. He is also a Consultant Cardiologist at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. He qualified from Guy’s, King’s & St. Thomas’s in 2004...
Dr Ahmed Elghamaz
Consultant Cardiologist
FRCP, MB BCh
Ahmed is a Consultant Cardiologist at Many Beats. He also consults at Northwick Park Hospital and London North West Healthcare University Hospitals NHS Trust and is an Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. He completed his junior…
Dr Joban Sehmi
Consultant Cardiologist
BSc, MBBS, MRCP, PhD
Joban is a Consultant Cardiologist at Many Beats. His NHS practice is at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS trust. He sees patients privately at Spire in Bushey and Bishops Wood Hospital in Northwood. He trained in medicine at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ medical school and qualified in 2003 with numerous academic awards…
