Question

what does it mean if this diagnosis is in her family history?

Answer 1

• Family history is the medical information related to the patient's family and his close relatives which includes, parents, siblings, aunties, uncles, nephews, cousin, nieces, and grandparents.
• The family history gives clues of the patient medical conditions through the factors of genetic, environmental, and lifestyle habits. For Ex: it helps to detect the common disorders in the family such as heart disease, diabetes, blood pressure.
• It also helps to detect the genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease caused by gene mutations.
• Family history allows the physician to know and reduce the risk factors for certain disease. The traits may increase the risk of the hereditary condition. For Ex: The physician would suggest for mammography screening for breast cancer to detect earlier if her mother or grandmother had suffered from this.
• It also helps the person to modify the lifestyle in order to prevent the chronic illness.
• Keeping the medical history of the family up to date helps the professional to detect the hereditary and genetic disorders of the person.