The most important modifiable risk factor for many men is smoking.

High blood pressure is the most important modifiable risk factor of stroke.

You can do something about known modifiable risk factors.

Over a third of cancer deaths worldwide are due to potentially modifiable risk factors.

Men with cancer are twice as likely as women to have a modifiable risk factor for their disease.

Major modifiable risk factors include hypertension, smoking, obesity, and diabetes.

Risk factors that a person can control are called modifiable risk factors.

The importance of preventive measures for a disease that has identifiable and modifiable risk factors must be emphasized.

Other risk factors, fortunately, can be changed (modifiable risk factors).

By improving modifiable risk factors, you can reduce your risk of heart attack or angina.

Cigarette smoke is a major modifiable risk factor for lung disease, heart disease, and many cancers.

Presumably, body weight is a modifiable risk factor, which accounts for a substantial proportion of endometrial cases worldwide.

"Of all the modifiable risk factors, high blood pressure leads the list," Dr. Sacco said.

So for transgendered men, the addition of risk with androgen therapy makes improving modifiable risk factors more important.

The leading modifiable risk factors worldwide are:

Lifestyle prevention of osteoporosis is in many aspects the inverse of the potentially modifiable risk factors.

Hyperlipidemia represents an important modifiable risk factor in the development and progression of CHD.

Most NCDs are considered preventable because they are caused by modifiable risk factors.

"So finding a link between heavy alcohol intake and pancreatic cancer death is important because it potentially adds to the list of modifiable risk factors," she says.

Advances about potentially modifiable risk factors for frailty now offer the basis for translational research effort aimed at prevention and treatment of frailty in older adults.

Lipid and lipoprotein abnormalities are common in the general population, and are regarded as a modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease due to their influence on atherosclerosis.

Prevention centers on the modifiable risk factors, which include decreasing cholesterol levels, addressing obesity and hypertension, avoiding a sedentary lifestyle, making healthy dietary choices, and stopping smoking.

Modifiable: Several modifiable risk factors have been studied in association with RA including reproductive hormonal exposures, tobacco use, dietary factors, and microbial exposures.

This acceptance of the acid-ash hypothesis as a major modifiable risk factor of osteoporosis by these publications, however, was largely made without significant critical review by high quality systematic analysis.

Dietary factors exert their influence largely through their effects on blood lipids and lipoproteins, as well as on the other established modifiable risk factors, with the exception of cigarette smoking.