Sunday, December 6, 2009

To find out what diseases and genetic correlation

Recognizing this point, we can trace the prevalence of other members of the family learned that their susceptibility to disease, which enable it to undertake targeted prevention. For example, if your family has several family members suffering from diabetes, then you should the risk of diabetes is much greater than the average person, we should pay particular attention to monitoring and prevention of diabetes.

So, what common disease genetic predisposition? If they are at high risk of these diseases, but also how to plan ahead, blocking it themselves renew?

1. Hypertension

Genetic risk: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

At present, most scholars believe that high blood pressure are more genetic disease. Hypertensive patients by family survey found that parents were suffering from high blood pressure, their children's future probability of suffering from high blood pressure as high as 45%; a parent suffering from hypertension for the sick, the children likely to suffer from high blood pressure is 28%; while their parents with normal blood pressure the probability of children suffering from high blood pressure was only 3%.

2. Diabetes

Genetic risk: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Diabetes has a significant genetic predisposition (especially the most common clinical type 2 diabetes). Family study found that positive family history of diabetes, the crowd, their diabetes was significantly higher than family history-negative groups. Whose parents have diabetes, their children's chances of suffering from diabetes, 15 to 20 times that of ordinary people.

3. Dyslipidemia

Genetic risk: ★ ★ ★

There are many reasons for abnormal lipid metabolism, one of which is that genetic factors. With the development of medical science has now been found that a considerable part of the lipid abnormalities in patients with one or more genetic defects. Dyslipidemia caused by genetic defects with familial aggregation of more than there is an obvious genetic predisposition, clinically known as familial dyslipidemia.

4. Breast Cancer

Genetic risk: ★ ★ ★

Significant family of breast cancer genetic predisposition. Epidemiological survey found that 5% ~ 10% of breast cancer is a family-oriented. If a close relative with breast cancer, then the risk of illness increased by 1.5 ~ 3 times; if two close relatives with breast cancer, the prevalence rate will increase by 7 times. The younger the onset, relatives in the greater the risk of breast cancer.

5. Gastric cancer

Genetic risk: ★ ★ ★

Gastric cancer patients with a clear familial aggregation. The survey found that first-degree relatives of gastric cancer patients (ie, parents and brothers and sisters) were the risk of gastric cancer than the general population an average of 3 times.

6. Colorectal cancer

Genetic risk: ★ ★ ★

Family history of colorectal cancer caused by the incidence of colorectal cancer accounted for 10% of the total number of ~ 15%. Relatives who have colorectal cancer, the risk of contracting this disease than the average person 3 to 4 times as large, if the family has two or more close relatives (parents or brothers and sisters) suffered from colorectal cancer, colorectal cancer, compared with high-risk groups .

7. Lung Cancer

Genetic risk: ★ ★

Foreign research institutions in more than 102,000 elderly people in Japan started as long as 13 years of follow-up investigation, they appeared in 791 cases of lung cancer, the Chinese Communists. The researchers will be immediate family members have lung cancer patients with and without lung cancer patients to compare the two groups and found that the former prevalence of the latter two times more likely. Hereditary lung cancer in women who are even more evident.

8. Asthma

Genetic risk: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

At present, most scholars believe that the genetic factor in the incidence of asthma is greater than environmental factors. If the parents have asthma, the chances of their children suffering from asthma may be as high as 60%; if one parent suffers from asthma, the possibility of children suffering from asthma, 20%; if the parents do not have asthma, the possibility of children suffering from asthma, only 6 % or so.

9. Depression

Genetic risk: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Many studies have found that the incidence of depression and genetic factors are more closely related to depression in relatives of patients suffering from depression, the probability is much higher than most people, about 10 ~ 30 times, and blood ties closer, the more the probability of illness high.

10. Senile dementia

Genetic risk: ★ ★ ★

Long-term research scientists have found that Alzheimer's disease is a multi-gene genetic disease. The study found that parents or brothers have Alzheimer's disease patients suffering from senile dementia more likely than 4 times higher than those without family history

  Draw a family disease spectrum predicted personal health

Experts suggest that people should establish a family disease spectrum, to predict their own health.

The first step: an investigation

The first is to collect your family ever suffered any major diseases, such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, asthma, and birth defects, developmental unsound, all kinds of allergies, emotional or behavioral disorder. At the same time, health-related habits should not be let off, such as smoking, drinking, engaged in special work. The more detailed the better the information collected, such as members of the date of birth, date of death, health status, cause of death and so on.

Step Two: Drawing

In the designated box fill in your name each and every relative and use tick that they are male or female. The horizontal line at the next line to fill in. They had suffered a major disease (the more detailed the better) name.

If you know the age they were diagnosed disease, please fill in this age, the disease behind the brackets. For example: "diabetes mellitus (diagnosis -37 years old)."

If the family members have passed away, and wrote "death" and death by age, suffering from what the disease died. For example: "heart attack (died -63 years old)."

If your family includes half-or half-brothers and sisters, please write in the first line, "half-or half-brother" or "half-or half-sisters" , and the next line marked with "different father" or "half-."

Complete your "family disease spectrum", the contrast in front of several diseases with a clear genetic predisposition, you can clearly know what patients at higher risk of disease and thus take appropriate preventive measures and health check-ups time to take note of the direction of inspection items. At the same time, you can keep his "disease spectrum," attached to the medical records, the doctor when the doctor can give a comprehensive reference for physicians in accordance with your personal health situation on you to guide and to take some specific preventive measures. Of course, you should be up to date on the form

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