London: A new study led by researchers from Oxford Population Health has shown that a variety of environmental factors, including lifestyle choices (such as smoking and physical activity) and living conditions, have a more significant impact on health and premature death than our genes. The study, which analysed data from nearly half a million UK…
Nurture plays a greater role than nature in our risk of a number of major diseases and premature death, according to a new study. Oxford Uni researchers who assessed the influence of 164 environmental factors and genetic risk scores for 22 major diseases found environment explained 17% of the variation in death risk, compared to…
Credit: Lars Neumann/Getty Images Healthier midlife behaviors lead to better outcomes for age-related brain diseases even in people with genetic predisposition, research using data from the U.K. Biobank showed. A team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston found that after about 12 years of follow-up, each 5-point improvement in subjects’ Brain…