Your Family Health History Get to know your family better this holiday season by talking about the health history of your family. Are there health conditions that seem to run in your family? For example, have many people in your family had a heart attack, cancer, diabetes, or anything other...
You may not have all the answers, and that's OK. Just talk to your doctor about the information you do have or tell her that you don't know much about your family health history. She can help you sort through it and maybe even tell you where else to look. Even if you're missing...
WebMD explains why your doctor asks about your relatives’ health conditions and how you can get the information if you don’t know.
Family health history (FHH) is the most useful means of assessing risk for common chronic diseases. The odds ratio for risk of developing disease with a positive FHH is frequently greater than 2, and actions can be taken to mitigate risk by adhering to screening guidelines, genetic counselling...
Purpose Family health history is often collected through single-item queries that ask patients whether or not their family members are affected by certain conditions. The specific wording of these queries may affect what individuals report. Methods: Parents of Boston Children's Hospital patients were ...
Family health history is often collected through single-item queries that ask patients whether their family members are affected by certain conditions. The specific wording of these queries may influence what individuals report. Parents of Boston Childre
The complexity of documents (i.e., forms collecting family history information) was assessed using the PMOSE/IKIRSCH document readability formula. Results: A total of 78 tools were identified, 47 of which met the criteria for inclusion. SMOG reading grade levels for multimedia-based tools ranged...
At the doctor's office, questions about a person's family health history often can help health care professionals determine the risk of developing chronic conditions, including heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.
How health professionals organize family history grand-parents grand-parents parents aunts & uncles siblings you children nieces & nephews To learn to draw a family tree like this, go to http://www.nsgc.org/consumer/ What will your health professional do with the information? Determine your ri...
The Nature, Forms and Terms of Heraldrya guide for genealogists Rafe de Crespigny Introduction: lineages, surnames and heraldry For anyone proposing to study the history of a family – their own or anyone else’s – an obvious place to start is the surname: passing from father to son, and...