Sometimes heart disease can run in families making it a hereditary heart disease. You become at high risk for getting heart disease if you do not already have it. There are lots of things that can cause hereditary heart disease.

One of the biggest things that can cause hereditary heart disease is when one parent might have a high chance of a premature cardiovascular disease.

Other causes that might bring on hereditary heart disease could be:

- life style changes
- high cholesterol
- diabetes
- hypertension

Sometimes poor eating and life changes run in families. If all of your family is overweight you should consider putting all of your family on a diet and talking with them. Go on walks together and try to find ways to reduce stress in your family. Talk with your family about any concerns that you have with hereditary heart disease.