modifiable

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"Both of those things can be difficult for people to stop or to reverse, but they are probably the most modifiable ones," says Dr McCartney.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2025

For the study, the researchers focused on the link between modifiable lifestyle-related factors, such as obesity, body fat distribution and metabolic aspects, and Alzheimer's disease pathology.

From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024

"We really need to study fathers as a unique population and track men's health outcomes as they become fathers. Cardiovascular health is especially important since the health behaviors and factors are all modifiable."

From Science Daily • May 28, 2024

In this new study, published in Nature Communications, they investigated the genetic and modifiable influences on these fragile brain regions by looking at the brain scans of 40,000 UK Biobank participants aged over 45.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

Thus one's misery at being scorned is too indefinite a response to too complex a situation and is too easily modifiable to be called a reflex.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra