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Mashup Score: 0Family History of Heart Disease: Steps to Protect Your Health - 1 year(s) ago
Certain heart disease risk factors are uncontrollable, like family history. Here’s how maintaining a heart-healthy lifestyle and monitoring your heart can help.
Source: HealthlineCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 1Systematic comparison of family history and polygenic risk across 24 common diseases - 1 year(s) ago
Leveraging family relationships, nationwide registries, and genome-wide genotyping, Mars et al. systematically compared two measures of inherited disease risk across 24 diseases: family history and polygenic risk scores. The measures provided complementary information for risk assessment, demonstrating opportunities for a more comprehensive way of assessing inherited risk in clinical care.
Categories: Future of Medicine, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
RT @westr: Systematic comparison of #familyhistory and #polygenicrisk across 24 common diseases https://t.co/zCTK9cUwCB #PRS
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Mashup Score: 0Systematic comparison of family history and polygenic risk across 24 common diseases - 1 year(s) ago
Leveraging family relationships, nationwide registries, and genome-wide genotyping, Mars et al. systematically compared two measures of inherited disease risk across 24 diseases: family history and polygenic risk scores. The measures provided complementary information for risk assessment, demonstrating opportunities for a more comprehensive way of assessing inherited risk in clinical care.
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Systematic comparison of #familyhistory and #polygenicrisk across 24 common diseases https://t.co/zCTK9cUwCB #PRS
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Mashup Score: 1Family History of Psychiatric Disorders as a Risk Factor for Maternal Postpartum Depression - 2 year(s) ago
This systematic review and meta-analysis investigates the association between family history of psychiatric disorders and risk of developing postpartum depression within 12 months post partum.
Source: jamanetwork.comCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
#Familyhistory of mental illness ups odds for #postpartumdepression @JAMAPsych https://t.co/lV4wc8JxRr https://t.co/VfIxToCdg0
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Mashup Score: 2Polygenic risk score as a possible tool for identifying familial monogenic causes of complex diseases - 2 year(s) ago
The study aimed to evaluate whether polygenic risk scores could be helpful in addition to family history for triaging individuals to undergo deep-depth diagnostic sequencing for identifying monogenic causes of complex diseases.
Source: Genetics in MedicineCategories: Genetics, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Polygenic risk scores can help identify monogenic causes of complex disease—really? @TianyuanLu1 @Greenwood_LDI @BrentRichards19 #FamilyHistory #GenomeWideGenotyping #PolygenicRisk #RareVariantScreening https://t.co/NDoKGtxmdx https://t.co/9q59dF2fjH
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Mashup Score: 0Defining the Impact of Family History on Detection of High-grade Prostate Cancer in a Large Multi-institutional Cohort - 2 year(s) ago
In a large, international cohort, men with indications for prostate biopsy have an increased risk of high-grade prostate cancer in the presence of a family history of prostate cancer, second-degree prostate cancer, and first-degree breast cancer, controlling for other risk factors. This risk did not vary based on prostate-specific antigen level, and having additional affected relatives conferred…
Source: European UrologyCategories: Latest Headlines, Oncologists1Tweet-
The importance of #familyhistory in #prostatecancer risk. Have you talked to your family members about their #health? @clementsurology @VickersBiostats https://t.co/s2pWfd0K3t
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A national study on childhood asthma led by Henry Ford Health System has found that family history, race and sex are associated in different ways with higher rates of asthma in children.
Source: medicalxpress.comCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
#Familyhistory, race and sex linked to higher rates of #asthma in children @henryfordnews @JAMAPeds https://t.co/dQplu6oTpk
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Mashup Score: 0Collecting Your Family’s Cancer History - 3 year(s) ago
Sharing your family health history with your health care team is important. This is especially true if you have been diagnosed with cancer.
Source: Cancer.NetCategories: Hem/Oncs, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
DYK Collecting your family’s #cancer #history can help a doctor determine whether #HereditaryCancer may be a risk. To learn more helpful information & why it’s essential, visit @CancerDotNethere: https://t.co/HfXhR2YWnL #CancerSupport #GeneticTesting #CancerRisk #FamilyHistory https://t.co/XL6k4rLgXz
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Children and adolescents with a family history of suicide attempts have lower executive functioning, shorter attention spans, and poorer language reasoning than those without a family history, according to a new study by researchers from the Lifespan Brain Institute (LiBI) of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania. The study is the largest to date to examine…
Source: medicalxpress.comCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Youth with #familyhistory of #suicide attempts have worse neurocognitive functioning https://t.co/UkXRKO6fdk
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Mashup Score: 0A population‐based study of testicular cancer risk among children and young adults from Norway and Utah, USA - 4 year(s) ago
What’s new? The incidence of testicular cancer (TC) has increased substantially in many countries, with the highest incidence found in Denmark and Norway. The reasons remain unknown, however. This po…
Source: Wiley Online LibraryCategories: Hem/Onc News and Journals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
It's #Movember! This study by Ruby Del Risco Kollerud et al. explores the role of Scandinavian ancestry and #familyhistory of #TesticularCancer in TC #risk Read more here - #FreeAccess! ➡️https://t.co/G3kXfjc7Iq @Disputas_UiOMED @huntsmancancer @UofUMedicine #EpiTwitter https://t.co/QdT8VqFrXJ
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Having a family history of heart disease means you are at higher risk for developing the disease, but there are preventative steps you can take to protect your health if heart disease runs in your family. #heartdisease #familyhistory https://t.co/a8rkamInjd