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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ophthalmologist Janine Austin Clayton, MD, spoke with Primary Care Optometry News about the review article she ...

Cleft lip and cleft palate are the two most common abnormalities of the face and palate. It is an opening in the midline of upper lip and/or palate. Both the conditions often tend to occur together.

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 ...

In studies of preventive cardiovascular interventions among diabetic patients, researchers tend to examine outcomes after modification of a single risk factor. But what is the effect of a more ...

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 ...

Aim To examine the effect of a multifactorial lifestyle intervention on 5-year change in physical activity (PA) and to explore whether length of education had an impact on the effect of the ...

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 ...