... "Thus, primary prevention of AMD by modifying risk factors (e.g., cigarette smoking) ... 3 fatty acids may be associated with a lower risk of AMD, there is insufficient evidence from the current literature ...
... unclear, the study identifies a potentially modifiable risk factor and highlights a potential way to decrease ... greater than 4.54 kg doubled the risk that a person would develop rheumatoid arthritis ...
... are expected to have the condition. Obesity is the strongest modifiable risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes.
... of eating a low-fat diet on diabetes risk in 48,835 post-menopausal women. ...
... "Prevention strategies often focus on modifiable risk factors for colonization and aspiration and can successfully reduce ... 34.2 percent relative reduction in risk of developing pneumonia (3.8 percent ...
... his colleagues posed three hypotheses: risk for depression would be higher among older ... disturbance.
"Given that sleep disturbance is a modifiable risk factor," he said, "these findings tell us ...
... should continue to be encouraged to place infants on their backs to sleep, other potentially modifiable risk factors in the sleep environment should be examined to promote further decline in the rate ...
... heart attack risk than the Oriental, researchers said.
"The objective of this study was to understand the modifiable risk factors of heart attacks at a global level," said Salim Yusuf, D.Phil., the ...
... values is high in populations not known to have high risk," said Timothy P. Murphy, M.D., an ... changes and medical intervention directed at modifying risk factors (smoking cessation, blood glucose and ...
... ). The authors suggest that maternal smoking has replaced stomach sleeping as the greatest modifiable risk factor for SIDS. Results show that the progression from sub-cortical activation to cortical ...
... risk of suicide is important for preventing it and these findings indicate that insomnia may be a modifiable risk factor for suicide in the general population," Wojnar said. "This has implications for ...
... , use of antidepressants or anxiety.
"These results may be important since obesity is a modifiable risk factor that is becoming increasingly common in the U.S.," said study author Xiang Gao, MD, PhD, ...
... age, genetic markers and smoking (the only consistently reported modifiable risk factor).
In one report, Jennifer S.L. Tan, M.B.B.S., B.E., of Westmead Hospital, University ...
... health ramifications." While several modifiable risk factors have been identified, the proportion of patients with new- ... population); 58 percent for 4 low-risk factors (1.6 percent of the population); ...
... cancer-specific mortality. Identifying modifiable risk factors for the lethal form of prostate cancer ... risk of advanced and lethal disease represents a step forward in prostate cancer, especially given ...
... , financial disclosures, funding and support, etc.
Editorial: Neighborhood May Be a Modifiable Risk Factor for Diabetes
"Given the challenges of mounting an intervention at the individual ...
