You decide you are going to make more responsible health decisions. Which of the following risk factors can you control?

Question

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Responses

There is a history of heart disease in your family.
There is a history of heart disease in your family.

There is a higher incidence of high blood pressure in your ethnic group.
There is a higher incidence of high blood pressure in your ethnic group.

Your friends have recently started smoking.
Your friends have recently started smoking.

Unintentional accidents are the leading cause of death for teens.

Answer 1

Among the options provided, the risk factor that you can control is:

• Your friends have recently started smoking.

While you cannot change family history or genetic predispositions, you can make choices about the company you keep and whether or not to engage in smoking behaviors influenced by your friends. The other options describe factors (family history and ethnic group incidence) that are beyond your control, and while unintentional accidents are a significant risk, you cannot directly control the risk factor itself without specific actions to mitigate accident risks.