Patients'' Personal Experiences with Relative''s Illnesses Influence their Familial Risk Perception

... An in-depth qualitative study of 30 patients with a family history of cancer, heart disease or diabetes finds that a patient''s understanding of their familial risk of common chronic diseases depends not only on the biomedical approach of counting affected relatives, but also on such factors as the emotional impact of witnessing illness in the family and the nature of personal relationships with the relative with the disease... click link for more info. ...