The statement that some factors of heart disease cannot be controlled is true. Unconrollable risk factors about which you can’t do anything are: age (the older the person the greater the risk), gender (men have a greater risk of heart attack than women do, and men have attacks earlier in life) and heredity (children of parents with heart disease are more likely to develop heart disease themselves). However, this is why it is very important to manage the risk factors that can be changed, like lifestyle, healthy habits, sport, helthy food, ...