News tagged with familial risk
Brain plaques may explain higher risk of Alzheimer's based on mom's history
A family history of Alzheimer's is one of the biggest risk factors for developing the memory-robbing disease, which affects more than 5 million Americans and is the most common form of senile dementia. Now ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Study suggests mammograms under 50 if family risk
(AP) -- Women in their 40s with a moderate family risk of breast cancer should get yearly mammograms, a new study suggests.
Nov 18, 2010 |
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Foreign homestay students exposed to major health risks; need better safety net: Study
Foreign homestay students who come to Canada to attend high school without their parents are exposed to major health risks such as smoking, drug use and early sexual intercourse, according to University of British Columbia ...
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Full-time work no longer considered the norm in Australia
Casual, part-time and contract work is gradually overtaking permanent full time employment as the standard type of job for the majority of working Australians, according to a major report by the Workplace Research Centre ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 06, 2010 |
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HRT-breast cancer risk stays same, regardless of family history
The risk of developing breast cancer due to taking hormone replacement therapy appears to be the same for women with a family history of the disease and without a family history, a University of Rochester Medical Center study ...
May 19, 2009 |
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Negative mood-related drinking may mean vulnerability for major depression and alcohol dependence
Major depression (MD) and alcohol dependence (AD) co-occur in individuals and within families at higher rates than expected by chance. This study looked at how mood-related drinking motives may explain the overlapping familial ...
May 12, 2009 |
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Family history associated with increased risk of blood clots
Children and siblings of those with venous thrombosis, or blood clots in the veins, appear to have more than double the risk of developing the condition than those without a family history, according to a report in the March ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 23, 2009 |
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PSA levels accurately predict prostate cancer risk in African-American men
PSA levels appear to be more predictive of three year prostate cancer risk in African-American men compared with Caucasian men with a family history of prostate cancer, according to a paper published in Cancer Prevention Re ...
Feb 24, 2009 |
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