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5. Prediabetes. Is your fasting blood glucose ≥100 mg/dL and ≤125 mg/dL, and has this been confirmed on at least two separate occasions? If yes, this would be a positive risk factor.

6. Obesity. Is your body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m2, or waist girth ≥40 inches for men and ≥35 inches for women? Answering yes to any of these means you are at risk.

7. Sedentary lifestyle. Have you been participating in at least 30 minutes of moderate-­intensity (somewhat hard) physical activity at least 3 days a week for the last 3 months? If not, this would be a positive risk factor.

8. Age. Men, if you are forty-five years or older, this is a positive risk factor. Ladies, if you are fifty-five years or older, this is a positive risk factor.

There is only one negative risk factor, which means it negates a positive risk factor: elevated high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C). Is your high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) >60 mg/dL? Since this is the good cholesterol, we would like for this value to be above 60 mg/dL. Having high HDL-C indicates this “scavenger” is cleaning up the plaque on your arteries, which is a great health benefit in the prevention of CVD.