Sentences with phrase «family history of»

The study — the biggest of its kind in the UK - found that traumatic life events were the single biggest determinant of anxiety and depression followed by a family history of mental illness and income and education levels.

Factors such as age, height, weight, race, family history of breast cancer, history of benign breast disease, smoking, menopausal status, hormone and oral contraceptive use were taken into account.

Among the factors driving their new study, Vogelstein said, was that cancer often strikes people who follow all the rules of healthy living — not smoking, eating a healthy diet and exercising, for example, and with no family history of the disease — prompting the pained question, «Why me?»

The difference in risk remained present even after accounting for potential differences in smoking, alcohol intake, family history of cervical cancer and body mass index.

They adjusted for a variety of factors, such as age, physical activity, smoking, family history of diabetes, alcohol intake, postmenopausal status, menopausal hormone or oral contraceptive use, total caloric intake, and body mass index.

The «Stress Test», which was launched on BBC Radio 4's «All in The Mind» and available on the BBC website to complete, asked participants a range of questions about their family history of mental health problems, life events, income and education levels, relationship status and social circumstances.

If a woman with a strong family history of breast and ovarian cancers tests negative for the BRCA1 / 2 genes, that does not mean her relatives are not at risk, says Daly — her siblings could still carry the gene, or there could be additional genes present that predispose them to cancer that clinicians don't yet know how to test for.

Mutations in BRCA1 are reckoned to account for about half the cases of breast cancer in women with a strong family history of the disease.

Individuals who have had mild or transient psychotic symptoms (such as unusual thoughts, suspiciousness, perceptual disturbances) without using substances such as marijuana or alcohol and have a family history of psychosis or other risk factors are considered at clinical high risk for psychotic disorder.

The drugs would be prescribed to children with an LDL (the «bad» cholesterol) above 190 milligrams per deciliter, or above 160 with a family history of heart disease.

Although ASD is heritable, children with no family history of the disorder can still develop it through genetic mutations.

These include functioning successfully in their lives before the disease emerged; experiencing severe symptoms suddenly, all at once, rather than little by little; being older when the disease appeared; being female; having a higher IQ; and lacking a family history of the disorder.

With patented DNA chips and corporate backers, he is looking for alleles that distinguish healthy Finns from patients with a family history of heart disease.

The heightened sensitivity of these cells may be inherited; 80 percent of migraine sufferers have a family history of the disorder.

They also added that BRAF - mutant melanoma patients with a family history of colorectal cancer may require more than the usual screening if BRAF - inhibitor therapy is necessary.

«Our research is one of the few studies looking at this relationship and while further analysis in a larger study is needed, it could provide valuable information for those with family history of colorectal cancer and those working on prevention.»

Downing and his co-authors were struck that for patients whose family history information they could find, fewer than half had a family history of cancer.

For the test, the participants were divided into three groups — those diagnosed with MCI or had a family history of Alzheimer's disease, and two control groups, young adults and older adults, without a family history of the disease.

«We looked at age, family history of cardiovascular disease, weight, smoking status and region of the country but diabetes was the most consistent across diseases and across different size fractions of particulate matter.»

It was thought that genetics only played a role in those with a family history of FECD.

Our results pointed to three new genetic markers for FECD and confirmed the vital role of a previously known marker even among those who did not have a previously known family history of the disease.

The authors noted that there were only minimal differences in family history of asthma, birth weight and gestational age among those who were treated and those who were not.

To take a closer look at the role played by chromosome 5, molecular psychiatrist Hugh Gurling at University College London and colleagues examined 450 volunteers with schizophrenia and 450 volunteers with no family history of the disease.

The study (Pre-POINT) was performed between 2009 and 2013 in Germany, Austria, the United States, and the United Kingdom and enrolled children age 2 to 7 years with a family history of type 1 diabetes.

The scientists also discovered genetic material from the virus in one of two people who had a family history of the disease.

They gathered information on family history of ear infections, cigarette smoke exposure and breast versus formula feeding.

The analysis did not reveal any associations between genetic risk profile scores and duration of symptoms, family history of depression, recurring MDD episodes, or stage of MDD.

Women with a family history of two or more immediate family members (mother, sister, daughter) with breast or ovarian cancer or with a positive genetic test for mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes may be advised to consider having both breasts removed, because they are at high risk of a new cancer developing in the other breast.

Only 4 per cent of applicants have weighted premiums: they include some heavy smokers and some people with a family history of early death, from heart disease for example.

At least one in 12 women in Britain will develop breast cancer in their lifetime; the vast majority have no family history of the disease.

In the study, the researchers found distinctive brain differences in children known to be at high risk because of family history of depression.

Gabrieli and colleagues studied 27 high - risk children, ranging in age from eight to 14, and compared them with a group of 16 children with no known family history of depression.

In 38 of the patients, increased risk of the disease was based on family history of pancreatic cancer.

In a related commentary, Mark S. Talamonti, M.D., of the NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Ill., writes: «Pancreatic cancer is diagnosed in only 10 percent of patients with syndromic risk factors or a family history of pancreatic cancer.

«We found it can soar to 81 percent if additional features are present, like a family history of psychotic illness, odd or weird thoughts, and severe social deficits, such as having no friends or withdrawing from contact with others,» he says.

«Patients [with a family history of cancer] are very anxious and do a lot of annual tests — ultrasounds, mammograms,» says Mary Polan, a former chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

People with a family history of the disease use the test results to help them decide what steps to take to preserve their health.

Forty percent of the participants were positive for the APOe4 gene and 74 percent had a parental family history of Alzheimer's, both of which are known to increase the risk for developing Alzheimer's.

By providing a woman's family history of these cancers, including the ages they were diagnosed, the programs calculate a probability that the patient carries a harmful mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 (genes involved in controlling malignant cell growth).

The researchers found that only 16 % of women with a family history of breast cancer had BRCA1 mutations, compared with the 45 % found in previous studies.

Another study, conducted by Barbara Weber and her colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania, screened 263 breast cancer patients for BRCA1 mutations and asked them about their family history of breast and ovarian cancers.

Ashkenazi Jewish women with a family history of breast cancer may have a disease risk as high as 90 % or more if they carry mutations in BRCA1; another woman with no family history may have a much lower risk.

In addition to stressful life events, trauma and family history of schizophrenia and, the calculator takes into account five other factors to determine an individual's level of risk.

He had none of the common risk factors and knew of no family history of diabetes.

Testing may be advisable for people with a strong family history of colon cancer in order to begin screening and management.

A geneticist in his 20s with a family history of Huntington's disease — a fatal condition with a simple genetic basis and symptoms which typically manifest in middle age — decides to test himself for the disease gene.

The researchers determined that subjects with a family history of alcoholism found salty solutions less pleasurable than did those individuals not related to alcoholics.

Four people with a family history of cancer, or who have cancer themselves, lodged a complaint this afternoon with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Tobacco, obesity, diabetes, high alcohol intake and a family history of pancreatic cancer are all recognised risk factors for the disease, but explain less than 40 % of cases and important causes of the increasing trends yet have to be identified.

Gaab and her colleagues have found that preschoolers with a family history of dyslexia tend to have less gray matter in brain areas involved in mapping the sounds of language onto their written counterparts — areas known to differentiate older children with and without dyslexia.