Objective: To ascertain preventable and non-preventable risk factors for adverse drug events (ADEs) in elderly inpatients at hospital admission. Patients and Methods: This was a prospective study ...

Both traditional and less conventional risk factors contribute strongly to the risk of cryptogenic ischemic stroke in adults younger than 50 years, but their relative importance varies by the presence ...

"So you probably have genetic risk that can be outweighed to some degree by protective factors." A major study published last year in The Lancet found that almost half of dementia cases are ...

“I don’t really think that vascular risk factors and metabolic syndrome causes Alzheimer’s disease, but I think it can fast-forward someone towards it,” he said. More research will need to ...

A recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that five common risk factors for heart disease could slash your life expectancy by more than a decade. Those risk factors ...

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 ...

"Additionally, we learned that certain Alzheimer's risk factors-such as cardiovascular health, ATN (amyloid, tau, neurodegeneration), and immune biomarkers-are present and related to cognition in ...

He says there are other known risk factors that are linked to an increased risk of dementia, including smoking, inactivity, obesity, social isolation and hearing loss. And different factors become ...

Nontraditional risk factors shed light on unexplained strokes in adults younger than 50 Date: April 17, 2025 Source: American Heart Association Summary: Among adults ages 18-49 (median age of 41 ...