Traditional cardiovascular risk factors (TCVRF) that include increased age, male sex, sedentary lifestyle, smoking, dyslipidemia, systemic arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and a positive family history are not enough to explain the excess of heart disease [4]. A large multicenter
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