modifiable

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A 2025 comprehensive review concluded that B12 deficiency remains a modifiable risk factor for neurological and cognitive problems, especially in high risk groups such as older adults and vegetarians.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

"Because these feelings are modifiable, our goal is for this research to inform culturally sensitive stress-reduction interventions to mitigate these feelings in older adults."

From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026

"According to the 2024 report of the Lancet Commission, 14 modifiable risk factors total approximately 45%, or close to half, of the risk for Alzheimer's disease," he said.

From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025

"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

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