Gastric cancer is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates worldwide. Identifying individuals at high risk is important for surveillance and prevention of gastric cancer. Having first-degree relatives diagnosed with gastric cancer is a strong and consistent risk factor for gastric cancer, but the pathogenic mechanisms behind this familial aggregation are unclear. Against this backgrou...

In the UK, genealogy and family history has always been considered a pastime or hobby of the recently retired. However there in the last decade there has been an explosion of interest in the subject, due partly to media coverage (via programmes such as Who Do You Think You Are, BBC1) that shift the emphasis onto personal heritage, encompassing an emotional and geographical journey to discover a...

Evidence Where possible, odds ratios (ORs) have been converted to relative risks (RRs). • A total of 2302 male and female Framingham offspring study participants with parental history of premature CVD (father < 55 years, mother < 65 years) were analyzed for CVD risk.1 After 8 years of followup, CVD increased 75% with paternal and about 60% with maternal history of premature CVD. • Using the sam...

background : this study was designed to investigate whether there was an association between abo blood groups and car­diovascular risk factors in healthy population. methods : in this cross-sectional study, risk factors screening for cardiovascular disease(cvd) on 5000 healthy persons of go­lestan province, northern iran, in 2005 was estimated by a questionnaire that included age, sex, physical...

diabetes type 2 is a world wide spread disease with a multifactorial pathogenetic evolution. various factors like obesity, physical inactivity and poor lifestyle habits contribute to its development. the aim of this study was to verify if in young healthy sedentary male and female there is positive correlation between family history to type 2 diabetes and an increase in body weight and fat mass...

hypertension is one of the most important modifiable risk factors of vascular heart disease. control of hypertension in different age groups has a significant effect upon the control and prevention of vascular heart disease. a familial pattern is observed in the distribution of blood pressure in different societies. family history of hypertension has a profound effect on the future risk of deve...