Preventive Potential of Modifiable Risk Factors
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Preventive Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 2177
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Medical practice offers a large number of diagnostic and treatment options for various diseases. As is well known, not every disease is treatable; not every disease is curable. However, there are some diseases—even serious ones—that do not need to be treated if they are prevented. Consider that a lot of prevention has happened in the past and continues to occur today. However, one must also acknowledge that risk factors for both cardiovascular and malignant diseases are becoming more important and will become even more so in the future. In this Special Issue, I would like to invite you to submit scientific papers on the topic of "Preventive Potential of Modifiable Risk Factors." In biology, every habitat; every niche is exploited. As humans, we have a wide scope to endure risk due to our superior position and can accumulate various risk factors without jeopardizing this position; however, we risk our health and become vulnerable to diseases.
In this issue, we aim to collect data on a) what b) to what extent and c) how cardiovascular and malignant diseases are preventable by reducing modifiable risk factors (e.g., diabetes mellitus, inadequate exercise and diet, psychological stress, tobacco use, and environmental pollution, to name a few). We wish to know the margin between physiology and pathophysiology—which primarily addresses clinical and epidemiological studies—and are interested in the mechanisms that lead to maladaptations—which also addresses basic science studies. Please contact the team if you have any questions; we look forward to your in-depth research that will allow us to take another step in our knowledge of the preventive potential of modifiable risk factors.
Dr. Christian Schach
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- modifiable risk factors
- cardiovascular and malignant disease
- clinical and basic science
- physiology vs. pathophysiology
