Risk Factors

Shared and Region-Specific Dementia Risk Factors

Dementia risk factors vary substantially across countries, but they frequently cluster together in similar patterns worldwide, supporting both context-specific prevention…

16 hours ago

Obesity’s Cardiovascular Risk Gap Is Narrowing in Older Adults—But Not in the Young

An international analysis of nearly 1 million adults found that the long-standing differences in blood pressure and non-HDL cholesterol between…

2 weeks ago

Global Burden of CVDs and Risk Factors 1990-2023

Data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2023 study showed that cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the leading cause of…

10 months ago

CVD Risk Factor’s Lifetime Effect Estimates

A global analysis of over 2 million individuals from 133 cohorts across 39 countries found that five classic risk factors—high…

11 months ago

Age on the Association of Risk Factors and Stroke

An international case–control study suggested that vascular risk factors influence stroke risk differently across age groups. The study enrolled age-…

1 year ago

Global Study of Stroke Risk Factors

A study revealed that stroke remains a major global health challenge, influenced by numerous risk factors that vary across regions…

1 year ago

Significance of CVD Risk Factors in Childhood and Adulthood

A longitudinal cohort study suggested that childhood risk factors contributed both directly and indirectly to adult cardiovascular disease (CVD), and…

2 years ago

Progression and Regression of Subclinical Atherosclerosis

A Spanish longitudinal cohort study suggested that the impact of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and systolic blood pressure (SBP) on…

3 years ago

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