The risk factors Risk factors fall into two categories: modifiable, or those that can be treated and improved; and non-modifiable, or those that are outside a patient's control.
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Memory is a malleable, modifiable thing: we're changing it all the time.
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This is referred to in geography as the modifiable areal unit problem.
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Given the number of Uber Air vehicle partners, the MDC is easily modifiable.
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"Interestingly, optimism may be modifiable using relatively simple techniques or therapies," Lee said.
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But it is the modifiable risk factors that are currently of greatest concern.
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These kinds of factors may be modifiable, the authors write in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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"The modifiable risk factors are the same for both kinds of heart attacks," he said.
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Those so-called modifiable risk factors include diet, physical activity, smoking, sleep and social engagement.
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We also want to look at modifiable factors that are related to access of care.
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All in all, "diet is among the few modifiable risk factors for cancer prevention," Zhang said.
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These modifiable setups have been linked with dangers in the past, including at least two deaths.
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The good news is that same study found that patience as a personality trait is modifiable.
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They'll also be modifiable for, say, teaching in a state, such as Colorado, with legalized cannabis.
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The good news is the same study found that patience as a personality trait is modifiable.
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These modifiable factors can substantially reduce a woman's breast cancer risks — by as much as 50 percent.
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These modifiable, reusable devices allow people to refill their supply of e-liquid from a separate bottle dispenser.
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Other modifiable factors are smoking, diabetes, a diet high in saturated fats, high cholesterol, physical inactivity and obesity.
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"Hence, although potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia exist, this does not mean that dementia is easily preventable."
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It looks very modifiable, from church to going on a date to business casual, depending on the footwear.
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"The Juul isn't user-modifiable, and has a special temperature-regulation technology to prevent overheating or combustion," Gould says.
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Among modifiable risk factors, high blood pressure poses the biggest threat for stroke, according to the American Stroke Association.
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Maybe because a commercial object, like a button, isn't modifiable like a digital object, like a tweet or JPG.
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" As Dr. Ludwig explained, "Although genes are not modifiable, the weight of the mother before and during pregnancy is.
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"Casts and molds have to be manufactured very much in advance and they are not always modifiable," said Vittadini.
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Dr. Jauhar argues that health authorities should list emotional stress as a key modifiable risk factor for heart disease.
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It's a modifiable response to community needs that exemplifies a collaborative and creative spirit that improves quality of life.
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"Smoking is the single most important modifiable risk factor, both for heart disease and for erectile dysfunction," he said.
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It turned out to be very fortunate that the cello may be the most elastic and modifiable of all instruments.
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"Alcohol is estimated to be the third-largest modifiable risk factor for cancer, responsible for 5.6% of cancers," he said.
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One immediately modifiable solution would be to ensure that all moms are advised on safe sleep guidelines by their doctors.
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" The suit also noted that "manufacturers chose to ignore" legislative efforts to "address the catastrophic danger posed by easily modifiable weapons.
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Activity level and genetics are major determinants of physical fitness, but activity level is the most important modifiable factor, Crump said.
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You have to stock up on gear, get your modifiable vehicles out on the streets of New York, and make money.
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Treatment for depression should therefore address the hormonal problems in this mix that are modifiable, the study team writes in Menopause.
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Because if we can demonstrate that — for example — sleep apnea confers a high risk for dementia, that's a potentially modifiable risk factor.
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Puy-de-Dome's revenue mix offers limited flexibility as 75% of operating revenue is based on non-modifiable taxes and state transfers.
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"Unlike our genomes, which we can't do much about except blame our parents and grandparents, our microbiomes are potentially modifiable," he said.
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But it does "offer fairly compelling evidence that air temperature may be a modifiable risk factor for gestational diabetes," says Dr. Booth.
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That choice is presented during the setup of an Android phone, but modifiable at any point afterwards from the account privacy page.
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Obesity is a modifiable risk factor, so weight loss can be an important tool in reducing the risk of future cardiovascular disease.
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"There is a critical need to identify modifiable risk factors for concussion in order to reduce their incidence," lead author Adam Raikes said.
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The good news, Whitson added, is that poor vision is one of the few risk factors for cognitive decline that is potentially modifiable.
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While having these risk factors are concerning, they do not disqualify him for running for president, especially since some of them are modifiable.
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The effects of sleep could have a significant impact on health and mortality, because while genes cannot be changed, sleep patterns are modifiable.
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"There are a lot of modifiable factors that contribute to this disease...people who eat the most fiber have the lowest risk," says Cross.
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A base model is $1,099, but if we're trying to make this a workhorse, let's soup up the only thing that isn't easily modifiable.
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"In these individuals, the thyroid hormone levels are modifiable by decreasing the dose of therapy," she said, "and thereby perhaps decreasing sudden cardiac death risk."
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"Body composition is one of the most modifiable risk factors we have for many common diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and even cancer," he explains.
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Among modifiable risk factors, hearing loss accounts for about 265% of dementia risk, a greater proportion than factors like hypertension, obesity, depression, diabetes and smoking.
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She notes that designs which are easily modifiable allow for even more creativity, as other artists can reinterpret the images and add their own voices.
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"This is important because it is a modifiable risk factor," said the lead author, Dr. Emmi I.T. Helle, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital in Helsinki.
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Piracy has been a particularly stubborn problem on the Nintendo Switch, which is easily modifiable to run games and files that Nintendo didn't intend it to.
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"Sleep is a modifiable factor that we hypothesized would be associated with concussion risk, given the multidomain impairments associated with poor and insufficient sleep," Raikes added.
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Bar-Chama also cautions that exposure to heavy metals or excessive heat, like hot tubs or saunas, are modifiable factors that could affect a man's fertility.
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Modifiable behavioral risk factors, such as tobacco use, poor diet, physical inactivity, excessive alcohol consumption, and drug misuse, remain top contributors to the U.S. mortality rate.
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"Smoking could be an important and modifiable factor that hinders post-stroke functional recovery," said study co-author Tetsuro Ago of Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan.
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It remains one of the most easily modifiable cars — there is a vast ecosystem of aftermarket parts suppliers and shops that will work on the car.
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Personal Health Hearing loss is the largest modifiable risk factor for developing dementia, exceeding that of smoking, high blood pressure, lack of exercise and social isolation.
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It's the No. 1 risk factor in deaths worldwide, and the No. 1 modifiable risk in heart disease and stroke, the top two worldwide causes of death.
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Except for the fact that it operates underwater, it resembles a yellow model airplane, steering itself through the water with wings, a tailfin, and modifiable internal buoyancy.
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Having purpose is not a fixed trait, but rather a modifiable state: Purpose can be honed through strategies that help us engage in meaningful activities and behaviors.
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Changes in modifiable stroke risk factors might present new challenges for stroke prevention and a sustained decline in stroke mortality in U.S., according to the CDC report.
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"While there is no curative treatment for dementia, the proactive management of modifiable risk factors can delay or slow onset or progression of the disease," Ren wrote.
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"The robot personality may also be modifiable within a base personality construct to provide states or moods representing transitory conditions of happiness, fear, surprise," the patent papers state.
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"Further investigations are needed to determine whether different interventions for older postmenopausal women could control modifiable factors such as metabolically unhealthy obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension and lifestyle," Sone said.
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As with other French departments, Puy-de-Dome's revenue mix offers limited flexibility as 70% of operating revenue is mainly based on non-modifiable taxes and state transfers.
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Then, the researchers used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys to estimate the distribution of those modifiable lifestyle factors among adults in the United States.
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"Throwing shape objects" is good because it seems vague at first, but research reveals that Daylyt is possibly referring to the modifiable objects in various Microsoft Office apps.
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"Understanding risk factors for endometriosis that are modifiable is really important," said the lead author, Leslie V. Farland, a research scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
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"Some risk factors for type 2 diabetes -- such as genetics, ethnicity and age -- are not modifiable," the WHO says, but others, such as weight, diet, exercise and smoking, are.
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Established risk factors like age, race and family history are not "modifiable," they add, and there are few lifestyle changes that can be recommended to men to lower risk.
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"At the end of that study, we should be able to say some much more strong things about the effect of modifiable risk factors and dementia risk," he said.
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It suggests that both parental monitoring and adolescents' susceptibility to deviant peer influence "provide two additional modifiable factors that can be targeted for prevention and intervention" in the future.
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Previous research has linked several modifiable risk factors to gout including: a diet with too much meat and sweets; obesity; diuretics to treat high blood pressure; and alcohol consumption.
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"Most of these modifiable risk factors, such as smoking, hypertension and diabetes, damage the endothelium - the inside of blood vessel walls - that in time, leads to strokes," Budson added.
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We now know that age-related declines in sexual quality of life are largely related to modifiable factors, so we can target sexual skills, beliefs and attitudes in clinical interventions.
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Still the improvement seen from exercise was more than what could be seen from any other modifiable social or demographic factor such as education, body mass index or household income.
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Even so, cutting back on soda may have health benefits and be one of several modifiable risk factors that women can control to minimize their risk of fractures, Kremer said.
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Obesity is another cause for concern, because it is a major cause of hypertension, which is the single most important modifiable risk factor for stroke, according to the CDC report.
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Lifting can also be data driven, gender neutral, infinitely modifiable (which makes it much more physically accessible and safer than running), and centered around the principle of steady, progressive overload.
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This type of non-exercise activity makes up a significant and modifiable portion of your total daily calorie burning, and it can play an important role in helping you stay lean.
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"For cancer survivors with modifiable risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia, aggressive management of these conditions may be integral to efforts for long-term cardiovascular disease risk reduction," Armenian said.
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This qualifier has been in the platform since Froyo (SDK 8) and globally modifiable via UiModeManager since Marshmallow (SDK 23); however, there was never an explicit toggle made available anywhere in Settings.
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Past research suggests that about two thirds of the risk for dementia is hereditary or genetic, which means about one third of the risk is from things that are modifiable, Lee noted.
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Despite that, tax revenue (including federal taxes)-to operating revenue averaged 84.7% from 2011 to 2015, modifiable tax revenue represented a relatively low 36.3% of total tax revenue in the same period.
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"Smoking is clearly a modifiable risk factor that has a negative impact on transplant outcome," said Dr. Chris Dudley of Southmead Hospital in Bristol, UK, who was not part of the new review.
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Several SIDS parents understood the modifiable risk factors for SIDS, like co-sleeping with an infant in bed or parental smoking, even when these risks had been involved in their own child's death.
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These are the last highly upgradeable and modifiable desktop computer that Apple sold before moving to the much-maligned "black trash can" design that is sold today and hasn't changed significantly since 29.
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YZ: There are nine modifiable risk factors found to account for a third of [dementia cases], including certain medications that can exacerbate cognitive impairment, including poorly controlled cardiovascular health, hearing impairment and depression.
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The American Cancer Society says 45% of cancer deaths in the United States are linked to modifiable risk factors, such as cigarette smoke, excess body weight, eating red and processed meat and physical inactivity.
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"All three major problems we know are modifiable, and targeted well-informed effective policies can make a great difference," especially as most drug poisonings are due to prescription drug overdoses, Fischer told Reuters Health.
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Also, for those facing a higher-than-average risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke, the first step in reducing that risk is not a drug but getting modifiable risk factors under control.
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What many people may not realize is that there is a significant interaction between your environment and your genes, and your diet is one of the most basic and potentially modifiable components of your environment.
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The "body map" allows users to choose their gender and then select from a list of modifiable risk factors, divided into categories: food and beverage, lifestyle and behavior, disease and illness, and medication and treatment.
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This makes it critical for African-American and Hispanic patients to get regular primary care checkups and do what they can to address modifiable risk factors like smoking, eating habits, and exercise habits, Lackland advised.
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Instead of ordinary first-person shooter controls and locomotion, players use Oculus Touch controllers and toggle between "cover" locations marked around the map, while shooting at enemies with a vast array of modifiable sci-fi firearms.
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These may be especially important for women who have strong non-modifiable risk factors for gestational diabetes, she adds, including non-European ethnicity, family history of type 2 diabetes, or a prior pregnancy with gestational diabetes.
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"The findings, if confirmed by future studies, suggest that yogurt might serve as a widely acceptable modifiable factor, which could complement colorectal cancer screening and reduce risk of adenoma among the unscreened," Cao said by email.
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Because YouTuber Rz Editz ("RZED" for short) is a perennial prankster who enjoys pushing the video game physics of Grand Theft Auto 5 to the limits by creating his own scenarios in the game's easily modifiable world.
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New avenues aren't just in medicine and genetics but on the impact from lifestyle changes including reproductive health with its changes in the vascular and immune systems, and modifiable risk factors like sleep, cardiovascular disease and blood pressure.
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The French departments suffer from a negative structural gap between slow-growing revenue (mostly based on non-modifiable taxes and state transfers), and dynamic expenditure (mainly related to social transfers), which has led some departments to cut costs.
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The importance of culture and policies to health have been recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which also estimates that four modifiable risk factors are principal contributors to chronic disease, associated disability and premature death.
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After the brand-name devices, there are the modifiable tank-based e-cigs, in which pieces of the device can be bought separately, and users can customize everything from the temperature of the device to the drug ingredients.
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When they controlled for a long list of modifiable risk factors — fasting glucose, body mass index, waist circumference, blood pressure, blood lipids, location of residence, socioeconomic status and more — the difference in diabetes incidence between the races disappeared.
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The government has promised not to unstitch statutes stating that the legal work week is 35 hours, which will be part of a framework of rights that will remain enshrined in law and not modifiable by employers and unions.
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According to an analysis of more than 1 million people — the largest study of its kind to date — scientists say that heavy alcohol use is the biggest modifiable risk factor for dementia, especially early-onset forms of the disease.
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"While sleep disturbances are an important risk factor for cognitive decline, the good news is that it is a modifiable risk factor," said lead study author Shireen Sindi of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and Imperial College London.
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"Age-related hearing loss may represent a modifiable condition and a possible target for secondary prevention of cognitive impairment in older age, social isolation, late-life depression, and frailty," Panza, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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They stressed addressing modifiable risk factors such as diet and exercise; tobacco, alcohol and drug use; improving access to quality health care; and addressing the social determinants of health, such as the conditions in which people work and live.
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Hearing loss is now known to be the largest modifiable risk factor for developing dementia, exceeding that of smoking, high blood pressure, lack of exercise and social isolation, according to an international analysis published in The Lancet in 22019.
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"The take-home message is that the risk factors that they examined are modifiable - some of them are easier to modify than others, so individuals can decide what they think they are able to do," Melamed said by email.
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Sugary drinks were a natural starting place to experiment with government intervention in the food environment since there's a lot of evidence linking sugary beverages to diet-related disease, and soda is an easily modifiable part of the diet.
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Artists and musicians in New York and other urban areas have long been drawn to industrial spaces that are relatively inexpensive, out of the way of neighbors, and modifiable to accommodate various people creating, performing, and sometimes living in one place.
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"Given that (early menopause) affects roughly 10 percent of women in the U.S. and other Western populations, it felt like a worthwhile problem to start investigating and seeing if there are any potentially modifiable risk factors for it," she said.
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"The medical field is beginning to recognize that meaning in life is a clinically relevant and potentially modifiable factor, which can be targeted to enhance the well-being and functioning of patients," said Awais Aftab, first author, in a statement.
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This tool, developed by the American Heart Association, awards one point for performing well with regard to each of seven modifiable risk factors for heart disease: smoking, body mass index (BMI), physical activity, diet, blood pressure, total cholesterol and fasting blood glucose.
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Size has long been the sport's most valuable element, and folding it into a group that's also able to adopt modern principles (quality three-point shooting, a modifiable pick-and-roll defense, etc.) would eventually give Philly an advantage over everybody else.
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And it turns out the individual choice we make about how and whether to use antibiotics is a big one, as shown in this graphic below: In a recent Lancet series on superbugs, researchers visualized the various modifiable drivers of antibiotic resistance.
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Some of the same researchers also authored a separate study, published in The Lancet on Tuesday, that found most cardiovascular disease cases and deaths around the world are preventable and can be attributed to a small number of common modifiable risk factors.
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"Preventive screening and services designed to reduce modifiable risk factors before the pregnancy, referred to as preconception care, can make an important difference in improving pregnancy outcomes and maternal and child health," said Dana Schultz, a policy researcher at RAND Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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"For women who are interested in reducing their risk for endometriosis, breastfeeding is one potential modifiable way that women can reduce their risk," Dr. Leslie V. Farland of Harvard Medical School in Boston, one of the study's authors, told Reuters Health in a telephone interview.
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"Diet is a significant factor in preventing breast cancer as it is one of the most modifiable lifestyle changes that women can undertake to prevent breast cancer," said Dr. Sandhya Pruthi, a professor at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, who was not involved in the research.
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"Our bedroom environment is probably the most modifiable factor that can influence our sleep health," said Natalie Dautovich, an assistant professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University and the environmental fellow for the National Sleep Foundation, which has declared March 8 the beginning of Sleep Awareness Week.
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While the study can't prove whether or how improving aerobic fitness might directly reduce the odds of developing or dying from lung cancer, the results still point to one modifiable risk factor that current and former smokers might be able to control to reduce their risk, researchers conclude.
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The increased risk of heart attack, atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure associated with alcohol abuse in the study were similar in magnitude to other well-recognized modifiable risk factors such as diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity, researchers report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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"We calculated the lifetime risk only among persons 25 years of age or older because incidence rates of stroke among younger persons are low and are less dependent on modifiable risk factors and on the characteristics of health systems, which are associated with stroke burden in older populations," the study says.
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Starting at $325, the products, which slip atop a prosthesis like a boot to add design elements from the geometric and high-tech looking to plaid, floral, and even color-blocked patterns, are bespoke and comprised of different types of ABS plastic (a durable, lightweight, flexible, cleanable, and easily modifiable material).
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" Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, wrote in an editorial published beside the study that "air pollution exposures are ubiquitous in urban environments," yet they are "modifiable and can be reduced through rigorous regulatory action.
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The basic idea behind sugary drink taxes is this: These beverages are a modifiable component of the diet, and making drinks like soda more expensive through taxation might help reduce consumption, improve awareness of the health harms they carry, and nudge people to choose lower- or no-calorie beverages instead.
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"Chronic heavy drinking was the most important modifiable risk factor for dementia onset in both genders and remained so after controlling for all known risk factors for dementia onset," said lead study author Dr. Michael Schwarzinger, chief executive officer of Translational Health Economics Network and a researcher at INSERM–Universite Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite in France.
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"Evidence shows that while an earlier menopause increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, osteoporosis, and depression, it also protects against breast, endometrial and ovarian cancer which makes it interesting to investigate whether diet, which is one of the modifiable behavioral factors, is linked to the onset of natural menopause," lead author Yashvee Dunneram said in an email.
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The new findings suggest that survivors of childhood cancers should focus on improving modifiable heart disease risk factors, such as high blood pressure and diabetes, said study coauthor Dr. Paul Nathan, a professor of pediatrics and health policy, management and evaluation at the University of Toronto and a staff oncologist at The Hospital for Sick Children.
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"It was sufficient, though costly, difficult to create and not easily modifiable and so what ended up happening was maybe a hundred or so dedicated clinicians hung in there for the last 503 years and gradually the technology got better," explains psychologist Albert "Skip" Rizzo, the director of medical virtual reality at the University of California's Institute for Creative Technologies.
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" The documents continue: "Respondent shall pay Petitioner, as and for non-modifiable, nontaxable, non-deductible spousal support, the sum of $22017,403 less the amount of any monthly child support then in effect, payable on the first day of each month, commencing May 240, 222 and continuing thereafter on the first day of each month until the last payment on April 2500, 2029, and after such payment, spousal support shall terminate forever.
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" The documents continued: "Respondent shall pay Petitioner, as and for non-modifiable, nontaxable, non-deductible spousal support, the sum of $10,000 less the amount of any monthly child support then in effect, payable on the first day of each month, commencing May 1, 2019 and continuing thereafter on the first day of each month until the last payment on April 1, 2029, and after such payment, spousal support shall terminate forever.
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In their book A Thousand Plateaus (1980), the French philosophers write: Unlike a structure, which is defined by a set of points and positions, the rhizome is made only of lines; lines of segmentarity and stratification … the rhizome pertains to a map that must be produced, constructed, a map that is always detatchable, connectable, reversable, modifiable, and has multiple entranceways and exits and its own lines of flight.
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There's these things called field-programmable gate arrays, which are kind of programmable hardware, so you can prototype your ideas and change them every day and connect them to the internet and it's kind of a, it's a real computer, but modifiable, so it's ... I think students getting their hands dirty, I got into computer science because I was a math major at UCLA and a math class was canceled and I took this software class and I was hooked, right?
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