Environmental factors, lifestyle choices have greater impact on health than genes, study finds. Some of the environmental factors are modifiable, the researchers said.

Researchers at Mass General Brigham identified 17 modifiable risk factors that can reduce the risk of stroke, dementia, and late-life depression. Changing even one of these factors, such as ...

Researchers pointed to 17 modifiable factors shared by at least two of three brain diseases — stroke, dementia and late-life depression (LLD) — in a recent study in the Journal of Neurology ...

Photo credit: Getty Images . Researchers at Mass General Brigham have identified 17 modifiable risk factors that stroke, dementia and late-life depression share, suggesting new hope for ...

"Our study identified 17 modifiable risk factors shared between stroke, dementia, and/or late-life depression, emphasizing that there are many different steps individuals can take to lower their ...

Islami F, Marlow EC, Thomson B, et al. Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, 2019. CA Cancer J Clin.Published ...

But modifiable risk factors contributed to more than half of new cases for 19 of the 30 types of cancer evaluated. Josh Herting, 44, and Amber are now married with two young children, and Josh ...

Of a total of 1,781,649 adult incident cancer cases in 2019, 713,340 (40%) were attributable to these potentially modifiable risk factors. 2 Additionally, cigarette smoking had the largest ...

The study, published in JAMA Network Open on April 10, 2025, analyzed more than 900 children and identified six modifiable factors associated with adiposity (the condition of having too much fatty ...