Modifiable health risks, such as obesity, high blood pressure and smoking, were linked to more than $730 billion in healthcare spending in the U.S. in 2016, according to a study published in The ...

Cardiovascular diseases are still the world’s top killer, yet new research suggests they are far less random than they can ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a retrospective study, researchers analyzed 62,048 adult patients with STEMI (33% women) from the SWEDEHEART ...

An international collaborative study published in Science Bulletin reveals that over 680,000 new cases of hepatocellular ...

High blood pressure or hypertension is one of the biggest risk factors for heart diseases. It occurs when the force of blood in your arteries and other blood vessels is too high, leading to damage.

A recent review found that there were several modifiable and nonmodifiable factors that can affect the treatment adherence of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Modifiable and nonmodifiable risk ...

Four in 10 cancer cases and about half of cancer deaths among U.S. adults 30 years old and older in 2019 were linked to “modifiable” risk factors like smoking, drinking, poor diet and not getting ...

Findings of a Mendelian randomization analysis showed that greater body mass index as a child and adult and incidence of smoking were associated with an increased risk of psoriasis, whereas having ...

A new study by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City finds that patients without standard modifiable heart risk factors who experience a heart attack are common and more likely to ...

Maggie O’Neill is a health writer and reporter based in New York who specializes in covering medical research and emerging wellness trends, with a focus on cancer and addiction. Prior to her time at ...