Family Medical History
Updated: January 7, 2009
What you should ask your loved ones about their health history when you see them for the holidays.
As shared by Dr. James Ellis of Provena Covenant Medical Center in Urbana.
Heart history- specifically CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE and heart attacks (and
age of first heart attack)
High Cholesterol
Dementia
Diabetes
Some cancers- especially BREAST cancer in woman
Genetic diseases are fairly rare, but important to know what the disease is
and how it is transmitted thru families-neuromuscular diseases- MD,
huntingtons chorea are a couple of examples; hemochromatosis is another
hereditary iron storage disease, that if tested and diagnosed can be treated
early on.
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