Sentences with phrase «family history of the disease»

About 1 in 20 people with melanoma have a strong family history of the disease.

If the disease is uncommon, as with the progressive rod - cone degeneration (PRCD) form of Progressive Retinal Atrophy in Australian Shepherds, or if use of a test and careful breeding decisions have markedly reduced the frequency of a formerly common mutation (think what could be done with CEA in Collies,) testing could then be confined to only those dogs with known family history of the disease or with relatives that have been DNA tested as carriers.

Adverse psychosocial experiences in childhood are likely to be accompanied by other developmental risk factors for poor adult health, including family history of disease, 38 low birth weight, 39 and childhood overweight.40 It is thus important to test whether adverse psychosocial experiences in childhood exert an influence on adult outcomes that is independent of these established risk factors.

Testing for the variant may therefore be of clinical utility for identifying those women who are at an increased risk of breast cancer but who do not have a clear family history of the disease; those who are carriers of BRCA2 risk mutations and may be at a dramatically higher risk if they also carry the BARD1 variant; and for evaluating the likelihood that women who have already been diagnosed with breast cancer will develop a second breast cancer.

«In many cases, children born with a genetic condition have no reported family history of the disease,» said Chris Grottenthaler, CEO of True Health.

Hello Atul, Some of the reasons that I can think of include: — Under - reporting of age at the time of buying insurance to get insurance at a lower price — Hiding some fact at the time of buying insurance like not disclosing a pre-existing disease or hiding family history of disease / s — Death due to some exclusion like suicide in the first year, death due to war (in not included in the policy term)-- Policy not valid at the time of claim.

Women who followed weight, exercise and alcohol consumption guidelines had about the same lowered risk for getting breast cancer, even if they had a strong family history of the disease

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.

Radiologists came from across the hospital to peer at the results, disbelieving: A perfectly healthy 21 - year - old nonsmoker with no family history of the disease had lung cancer, which three days later would be diagnosed as stage IV, the most advanced form.

Be sure your child mentions allergic reactions to medications (like penicillin), and whether or not there's a family history of disease, like cancer or heart disease.

For some this may be particularly important, for example, those with a family history of diseases associated with formula feeding (diabetes or asthma), the death of a formula - fed baby from necrotising enterocolitis or SIDS, or a baby with formula intolerance.

Other tests for things like cystic fibrosis are only performed if you have a family history of the disease.

Additionally, breastfeeding moms are less likely to develop diabetes later in life, which is especially important for women who develop gestational diabetes or have a family history of this disease.

This particular meta - study reported that breastfeeding provides up to a 28 % decrease in risk of developing breast cancer at any age (pre - or post-menopausal) for women without a family history of the disease, who breastfed for 12 months or longer (World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research, 2007).

In an eight - year study of over 60,000 women who had given birth, having ever breastfed provided up to a 59 % reduction in the risk of developing pre-menopausal breast cancer in women with a family history of the disease (Stuebe, Willet, Xue, & Michels, 2009).

If a child is breastfed until its first year, it is said that it could cut risk of developing breast cancer by about one third among those who have a family history of the disease.

The Stanford University geneticist wasn't worried: He felt healthy and didn't have a family history of the disease.

It has a relatively low lifetime risk that is less than 1 %, but that can increase up to 40 % if there is a family history of the disease.

The National Eye Institute and other government agencies, professional societies and consumer groups recommend regular glaucoma screening for people at high risk, such as individuals with a family history of the disease, African - Americans older than 40, and everyone older than 60, especially Latinos.

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

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.

The new Pre-POINTearly vaccination study will treat children between the ages of six months and two years who carry a genetic risk of developing type 1 diabetes or have a family history of the disease, but who have not yet developed an autoimmune response.

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

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.

«Based on our findings, physicians should still be watching for prostate cancer risk factors — such as being over the age of 40, having African - American ancestry, or having a family history of the disease — in men taking testosterone therapy, but should not hesitate to prescribe it to appropriate patients for fear of increasing prostate cancer risk,» says lead study investigator and NYU Langone urologist Stacy Loeb, MD, MSc.

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.

Experts suspect the reason for this unexpected result is that people who genuinely need to see a doctor regularly — the elderly, sufferers of chronic medical conditions, and people with a family history of diseases like diabetes or cancer — already do.

Hawkins says the findings don't predict who will develop Alzheimer's disease, but they do show there is something different in the brains of most of the participants diagnosed with MCI or who had a family history of the disease.

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.

Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. Approximately 30 percent of persons diagnosed with CRC have a family history of the disease, and 5 to 6 percent have mutations that are diagnostic of a known hereditary cancer syndrome.

As for the implications in humans, Phillipson says it's too early to make broad recommendations, but she suggests that people with IBD or a family history of the disease consider avoiding these ingredients.

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?»

Risk factors for pancreatic cancer include smoking, diabetes, obesity, family history of the disease and pancreatitis.

We are discussing cancer risk genes in people without a family history of disease.

Uneasily, I read on: «Women of Ashkenazi Jewish descent who tested positive for cancer - causing genetic mutations during random screenings have high rates of breast and ovarian cancer even when they have no family history of the disease, researchers reported Thursday.»

It refers to random, isolated cases in which individuals have no known risk factors or family history of the disease.

«They may want to pay for a membership to the gym,» which would help ward off many diseases, instead of sequencing a patient's genome, at least for people with no strong family history of a disease, he says.

Doctors believe that it could halve the rates of breast cancer in women with a family history of the disease.

«On the opposite end of the spectrum, if you don't have any calcified plaque, our estimations indicate that use of aspirin would result in more harm than good, even if you have risk factors for heart disease such as high cholesterol or a family history of the disease.»

The researchers compared the genes of more than 8,000 white European women — including around 3,250 women diagnosed with ovarian cancer, 3,400 women who did not have cancer and 2,000 women who had a family history of the disease.

Currently, there isn't enough information to warrant ApoE testing for all, or necessarily those with a family history of the disease.

Individuals who should also consider stem cell preservation are those with a family history of disease and want to do all they can to avoid occurrence in their own lives.

We are giving people the means to battle and potentially avoid disease development and progression, including those who have a family history of diseases or are cancer survivors and are at higher risk of future bouts with the disease.

Patients with a family history of diseases or who work and / or live in environments with exposure to toxins have weakened immune system which increases the risk of disease in the future.

However, just as with many other forms of stress (complications during pregnancy and birth, drug use, head injuries, etc) that appear to be important in the risk for schizophrenia (especially those who have a family history of the disease), scientists suggest that child abuse may likely also turn out to be a risk factor for some individuals.

Most women diagnosed with breast cancer have no known risk factors or family history of the disease.