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Surgeon General, NHGRI Suggest Focus on Your Family Health History Right Click to Download MP3 File Brief Description: Transcript: Guttmacher: It's a web-based tool that allows anybody who has access to the internet, to go in and put in information about their own family health history. The nice thing about this is that it asks you specific questions about various relatives and it helps you fill out a family tree about health history for yourself, and helps organize the information at the end. It gives you a print out you can take into your own doctor or nurse whoever is your health care provider. It gives a list of family members, what kinds of health problems they've had. And also gives you a chart that shows family relationships and shows what kinds of health issues that run in the family. And that can help a person and their health care provider craft a way to really personalize medical care, to really focus on what an individual has in terms of risks for various kinds of common diseases. Akinso: For more information about the initiative visit, www.hhs.gov/familyhistory. This is Wally Akinso at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. |
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