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A recent study published in the British Medical Journal Evidence-Based Medicine suggests that adopting a healthy lifestyle can significantly offset the genetic risk of a shorter life. Researchers found that factors like not smoking, regular exercise, sufficient sleep, and a healthy diet can reduce the risk by more than 60%.
A healthy lifestyle could counteract the effects of life-shortening genes by more than 60%, a new analysis of several large long-term studies suggests.
People with a strong genetic risk of shorter lifespans could add almost 5.5 years to their lives if they adopt a healthy lifestyle at 40, the study revealed.
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A group of public health experts and scientists is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to rescind its controversial approval of a DNA test that promises to predict genetic risk of opioid addiction. In a letter sent to the agency on Thursday, 31 experts in genetics, addiction, psychiatry and medical-device regulation called the approval of AvertD a mistake that relied on faulty science and puts patients at risk. The group sent a separate letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Ser