Risk factors - 5 News by Max-Planck-Gesellschaft for the healthcare industry

Risk factors - 5 News by Max-Planck-Gesellschaft for the healthcare industry

image description

Unnoticed lesions in the brain slow down thinking

High blood pressure is the strongest risk factor for changes in the cerebral vasculature

22-Apr-2025 - ‘There is currently no treatment for these lesions, even though they are a major risk factor for stroke and dementia,’ says Frauke Beyer, lead author of the study. In order to find out how existing drugs could be prescribed, it was important for the researchers to first understand which factors ...

risk factors body mass index brain
image description

How adaptable to psychosocial stress is the teenage brain?

How environmental risk factors affect the mental health of 14- to 24-year-olds

02-Aug-2024 - Mental illness often occurs for the first time during puberty and in young adulthood. This is because during adolescent brain development, a pronounced remodeling of cognitive networks takes place. On the one hand, this remodeling promotes the maturation of more complex cognitive functions and ...

risk factors brain brain development
image description

Risk factor for psychiatric disorders has different effects depending on sex

Risk gene can also have positive effects

06-Jun-2023 - FKBP51 is considered a risk factor for psychiatric disorders. However, for the first time, new research results have shown positive effects: Instead of making people anxious or impairing their ability to think, the protein can have the opposite effect and thus promote resilience. The effect it ...

risk factors psychiatric disorders risk genes
image description

COVID-19 genetic risk variant protects against HIV

A COVID-19 risk variant inherited from Neandertals reduces a person’s risk of contracting HIV by 27 percent

22-Feb-2022 - The genetic variants we are born with can increase or decrease our risk of falling seriously ill with COVID-19. The major genetic risk variant for severe COVID-19, one we inherited from Neandertals, is surprisingly common. This raises the question whether it may actually be of advantage to carry ...

risk factors coronaviruses Covid-19
image description

Neandertal gene variants and Covid-19

Neandertal gene variants both increase and decrease the risk for severe Covid-19

18-Feb-2021 - Last year, researchers atthe Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden showed that a major genetic risk factor for severe Covid-19 is inherited from Neandertals. Now the same researchers show, that Neandertals also contributed ...

risk factors coronaviruses Covid-19
Haven't found the right news yet?

The bionity.com news search

Start your targeted search now with a wide range of filter options. Our database includes an archive of 0 life science news from business and science, which you can search by topic and organization, filtered by time and geography.

Start news search now