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Health Promotion and Maintenance V

The nurse has just completed a teaching session regarding the risk factors for coronary artery disease for a 45- year-old male client. The nurse asks the client to verbalize the modifiable risk factors for the disease. Which of the following is the correct response?

ExplanationCholesterol, obesity, and smoking are all considered modifiable risk factors. Other modifiable risk factors include hypertension and diabetes. Modifiable risk factors are those factors that can be monitored and changed by a client to decrease the client’s risk of developing coronary artery disease. Other factors such as age, race, menopause, heredity, and gender are considered nonmodifiable risk factors, or those that cannot be changed.