People with conditions or habits such as high blood pressure, an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, or smoking, ...

Therefore, the identification of potential risk factors of orthorexia seems to be warranted (Bundros et al., 2016). The socio-cultural context related to social media’s influence on orthorexia nervosa ...

psychological and social stress; and excess body fat around the waist called waist-to-hip ratio. Researchers compared how important risk factors were for severe stroke and mild to moderate stroke to ...

Socially Determined, a social risk analytics company ... The impact of addressing social factors on outcomes and quality scores has also become clearer. “It feels like we are building momentum ...

There is an urgent need to have an official estimate of the poverty line and bring in policy changes to impact the lives of ...

There may be multiple reasons for this, says Dr. Ertekin-Taner: One of them is that the brain needs healthy vasculature to ...

Research shows your zip code and education level may have a stronger connection to brain health risk than previously ...

Having a rush of anxiety, feeling your heart racing, breaking out into a sweat — whether it’s a spider suddenly scurrying out in front of you or in the lead-up to a big presentation at work or school, ...

Excessive daytime sleepiness could be an early sign of a pre-dementia condition called motoric cognitive risk syndrome (MCR), ...

Lives lost to obesity-related heart disease have nearly tripled over the past twenty years, a new study reports.

For all three outcomes -- dementia, stroke, and late-life depression -- the median follow-up was 12.5 years. During follow-up ...