modifiable

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"These findings show that the higher heart disease risks among evening types are partly due to modifiable behaviors such as smoking and sleep. Therefore, evening types have options to improve their cardiovascular health," she said.

From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2026

By identifying vesicle-associated PD-L1 trafficking as a modifiable driver of immune escape, the research opens a promising new path for tackling resistance to cancer immunotherapy.

From Science Daily • Jan. 28, 2026

"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

Human and social facts, from their more complicated nature, are not less, but more, modifiable, than mechanical and chemical facts; human agency, therefore, has still greater power over them.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart