Check out the new
fact sheets on family history and chronic diseases
at the Minnesota Chronic Disease Genomics Project's website. The
conditions covered include cardiovascular disease, hypertension, breast
cancer, prostate cancer, colorectal cancer, diabetes and depression.
These materials cover screening and prevention recommendations for
people with and without a family history of these conditions and give
advice on what you can do to prevent these conditions.
I have
it on good authority that other fact sheets are currently in the
pipeline and that these will address prevention and screening for
people who are concerned about a family history of asthma, obesity and
ovarian cancer. I'll announce them here when they are available.
If
you check these out, please provide feedback or comments via this blog
and I will see that the comments get back to the program. The goal is
to make these useful and accessible for everybody. Your feedback will
help to make it so.
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