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 ...

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 ...

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

The number of SNPs used as genetic instruments for the examined modifiable factors ranged from 4 to 505, in which the primary method used for assessment was the random-effects inverse variance ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC) is a rare category of death in which the cause remains unknown even after thorough investigation. Currently there is very little awareness or research ...

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 ...

Objectives To evaluate prevention strategies, their unintended consequences and modifiable risk factors for sport-related concussion (SRC) and/or head impact risk. Design This systematic review and ...

HealthDay News — Seventeen modifiable risk factors are shared by stroke, dementia, and late-life depression, according to a review published online April 3 in the Journal of Neurology ...