Many common health conditions arise due to a combination of genetic factors and lifestyle-related behaviors. People’s understanding of the multifactorial nature of health conditions has implications ...

Injuries from falls are major contributors to complications and death in older adults. Despite evidence from efficacy trials that many falls can be prevented, rates of falls resulting in injury have ...

Objective To examine the effect of a multifactorial, online injury prevention programme on the number of running-related injuries (RRIs) in recreational runners. Methods Adult recreational runners who ...

To what extent can our intestinal microbiota predict the risk of developing diseases? In the case of multifactorial diseases, bacterial taxa alone do not provide much information, according to a study ...

In some cases, more than one factor may be responsible for causing the birth defect. For example genes form both parents may interact with one another to produce an undesirable effect in the presence ...

Validation study of end-of-life risk prediction model in active chemotherapy patients. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text ...

The present article describes the application of a theory-based framework to understand current public knowledge of genetic risk factors of multifactorial diseases. The main innovative aspect is the ...

Intensified multifactorial intervention — with tight glucose regulation and the use of renin–angiotensin system blockers, aspirin, and lipid-lowering agents — has been shown to reduce the risk of ...

The pandemic of type 2 diabetes mellitus requires implementation of multifactorial interventions by clinicians for individual patients and policy makers for the health of the general public. In most ...

Are you interested in falls prevention? Boost your knowledge by taking our online learning unit Falls prevention and management now. Find out more. Catherine Gibson is assistant risk manager; Laurel ...

—A recent study highlights the importance of differentiating familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS) from multifactorial chylomicronemia syndrome (MCS) for setting expectations, guiding genetic ...