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Developing Family Healthware, a family history screening tool to prevent common chronic diseases.
Preventing chronic disease - 1 Jan 2009
Yoon Paula W, Scheuner Maren T, Jorgensen Cynthia, Khoury Muin J
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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, cancer, and diabetes. In 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed Family Healthware, a new interactive, Web-based tool that assesses familial risk for 6 diseases (coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and...
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