There are a lot of clinical evidences that points out that depression makes a person more susceptible to cardiovascular diseases. Although there are studies that arrived with some facts that genes play a major role in making a person at risk for developing heart diseases.

The twins study had covered an approximately, or more than 1,200 middle-aged men, makes out a little conclusion of how genetic make-up can bring cardiovascular diseases, and this study also arrived to the fact that depression takes a major part in the pathophysiology of the disease.

Jeffrey Scherrer of Washington University and of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in St. Louis is the head of the study. He stated that heart diseases are not only brought by depression, but also by diabetes, obesity and high cholesterol.

The twins in the study gave way to unique methods of knowing how genetic make-up can influence one’s health. Identical twins are known to share 100% of their genes, while fraternal twins have 50% of shared genes. The study of Scherrer involved identical and fraternal twins.

But according to Francois Lesperance, a psychiatrist at the University of Montreal, there is no exact evidence that will point out that treating depression would make a person have fewer chances of heart attacks. Lesperance pioneered researches that link depression to cardiovascular problems.

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The proponents of the study are also worried about the doubling of the percentage of people who have triglycerides in just 30 years. This may be attributed to the increased levels of obesity in the population.

The CDC is looking into possible ways to address the problems as other studies point out to only a fraction of these people with high blood fats taking medication and other steps to take care of their health.

Like LDL or bad cholesterols, triglycerides makes one prone to heart attacks. People with LDL take statins to lower their levels but this medicine is not very effective in lowering the levels of triglycerides. Triglycerides may come from fats in the body and fats of the food that people eat.

Blood samples of 5610 people who are 20 years or older were studied. During the 1999 to 2004 survey, 33.1% of the population were positive for high triglyceride levels measured at 150-199 mg/dL or interpreted as borderline high.

Around 18 per cent of the subjects were considered to have high levels of triglycerides or a reading of 200 mg/dL or higher. About two percent of the participants had a reading of 500 mg/dL.

Higher readings of triglycerides were taken from older whites who declared positive history of smoking, were obese, and had less than 2.5 hours of exercise per week. They found out that women had lower risks. Mexican and African-Americans had lower risks than whites.

Treatment guidelines may be revised as more and more data help doctors in establishing the link to bad blood fats and heart attack which is the leading cause of death in the United States.