Personalized medicine: progress and promise

IS Chan, GS Ginsburg - Annual review of genomics and human …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Personalized medicine is a broad and rapidly advancing field of health care that is informed
by each person's unique clinical, genetic, genomic, and environmental information …

Systematic review: family history in risk assessment for common diseases

BJ Wilson, N Qureshi, P Santaguida, J Little… - Annals of Internal …, 2009 - acpjournals.org
Background: The usefulness of routinely examining family history in primary care practice is
uncertain. Purpose: To assess the beneficial and adverse effects of collecting family history …

Family history and prevalence of diabetes in the US population: the 6-year results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999–2004)

R Valdez, PW Yoon, T Liu, MJ Khoury - Diabetes care, 2007 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE—We sought to test the association between stratified levels of familial risk of
diabetes and the prevalence of the disease in the US population. RESEARCH DESIGN AND …

Awareness of lifestyle risk factors for cancer and heart disease among adults in the UK

SC Sanderson, J Waller, MJ Jarvis… - Patient education and …, 2009 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To examine and compare awareness of lifestyle risk factors for cancer and
heart disease in a single UK representative sample. METHODS: Two open-ended questions …

[HTML][HTML] Developing Family Healthware, a family history screening tool to prevent common chronic diseases

PW Yoon, MT Scheuner, C Jorgensen… - Preventing Chronic …, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Family health history reflects the effects of genetic, environmental, and behavioral factors
and is an important risk factor for a variety of disorders including coronary heart disease …

[HTML][HTML] Preimplantation genetic testing for polygenic disease relative risk reduction: evaluation of genomic index performance in 11,883 adult sibling pairs

NR Treff, J Eccles, D Marin, E Messick, L Lello… - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Preimplantation genetic testing for polygenic disease risk (PGT-P) represents a new tool to
aid in embryo selection. Previous studies demonstrated the ability to obtain necessary …

[PDF][PDF] Lifestyle related risk factors of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Saudi Arabia

FM Midhet, AA Al-Mohaimeed, FK Sharaf - Saudi Med J, 2010 - researchgate.net
Objectives: To assess the impact of diet and physical activity on the risk of type 2 diabetes
mellitus) T2DM (in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) KSA (after adjusting for family history of …

Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort

C Jia, S Zhang, X Cheng, J An, X Zhang, P Li… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Pyrethroid insecticides have been extensively used worldwide, but few studies explored the
prospective association between pyrethroid exposure and incident type 2 diabetes (T2D) …

Familial risk for common diseases in primary care: the Family Healthware™ Impact Trial

SM O'Neill, WS Rubinstein, C Wang, PW Yoon… - American journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
CONTEXT: Family history is a risk factor for many common chronic diseases, yet it remains
underutilized in primary care practice. BACKGROUND: Family Healthware™ is a self …

[HTML][HTML] Using family history information to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent diseases; a discussion of the evidence

L Claassen, L Henneman, ACJW Janssens… - BMC public health, 2010 - Springer
Background A family history, reflecting genetic susceptibility as well as shared
environmental and behavioral factors, is an important risk factor for common chronic …