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

"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

"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

There remains the life of man as a rational being: that is, as a being possessing reason along with other mental elements, which last are controllable or modifiable by reason.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander