Cardiovascular risk assessment and outcomes: from childhood to adulthood. "Senectus ipsa est morbus?"

Although the major part of cardiovascular diseases during childhood are the congenital ones, there is a wide spectrum of cardiovascular events that start during young age, arriving to cardiovascular diseases in adulthood. There are also some particular methabolic conditions, infective diseases, some typical and atypical risk factors and some specific drugs, that since childhood can expose to a major cardiovascular risk, that in some situation can present in the adult age. On the other hand, in the last decades, there was an increase in congenital heart defects that arrived since adult age, with the name of grown-up congenital heart disease.