Put the Family Back in Family Health History: A Multiple-Informant Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

An accurate family health history is essential for individual risk assessment. This study uses a multiple-informant approach to examine whether family members have consistent perceptions of shared familial risk for four common chronic conditions (heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, and hypertension) and whether accounting for inconsistency in family health history reports leads to more accurate risk assessment.

Methods

In 2012-2013, individual and family health histories were collected from 127 adult informants of 45 families in the Greater Cincinnati Area. Pedigrees were linked within each family to assess inter-informant (in)consistency regarding common biological family member's health history. An adjusted risk assessment based on pooled pedigre

SUBMITTER: Lin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5401648 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature