Vitamin D deficiency is common and can raise your risk of conditions like osteoporosis (a condition that causes weak bones) and depression. Many factors can affect your chances of being deficient ...

With this in mind, we undertook a systematic review to summarise the risk factors for developing knee osteoarthritis. Our findings, published today in the journal Osteoarthritis and Cartilage ...

Past studies have examined how individual risk factors affect mortality, but few have looked at the cumulative effect of controlling multiple risks simultaneously. Based on these challenges ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. A new study identified 17 risk factors for stroke ...

Improvements in science, medicine, and lifestyle factors have allowed people to live longer than ever—but the longer you live, the more your risk of dementia increases. Recently, scientists ...

Alzheimer’s disease risk factors and blood-based biomarkers, including those related to cardiovascular health and ATN (amyloid, tau, neurodegeneration), are associated with cognitive function in ...

Traditional risk factors were more strongly associated with stroke in men and women without a PFO. In contrast, nontraditional risk factors, such as blood clots in the veins, migraine with aura ...

Five classic risk factors for cardiovascular disease — high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, diabetes, and smoking — at age 50 can reduce life expectancy by more than 10 years.

Risk adjustment accounts for factors affecting a quality measure that do not reflect the quality of care. For example, if older patients have poorer outcomes for reasons not involving the quality ...

Three of the most common aging-related diseases share many of the same risk factors — and they can all be reduced through lifestyle changes. That’s according to a new study from Mass General ...

A wide range of modifiable risk and protective factors contribute to the combined burden of age-related brain disease, with high blood pressure, poor kidney function, high blood glucose ...

A study reveals that managing 17 risk factors such as diabetes and high blood pressure can reduce the likelihood of developing stroke, dementia and depression. Want to keep your brain sharp as you ...