(6, 7, 8, 9) These associations were independent of traditional risk factors such as smoking, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, waist circumference and diet. (wellnessmama.com)
While falling home prices appear to be the primary factor explaining this sharp increase in early defaults, most of the increase can not be explained by traditional risk factors.4 A potential explanation is that individual home buyers often falsely indicated on their mortgage applications that the property they were buying would be their primary residence. (newyorkfed.org)
What they found was that a third of the 62 SNPs were associated with traditional risk factors for coronary artery diseases, e.g., high blood pressure or cholesterol values. (sciencedaily.com)