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FAMILY HISTORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Part of a patient's medical history in which questions are asked in an attempt to find out whether the patient has hereditary tendencies toward particular diseases
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("family history" is a kind of...):
case history (detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment)
Holonyms ("family history" is a part of...):
anamnesis; medical history; medical record (the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient)
Context examples:
Patients have a positive family history involving at least two generations.
(Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy, NCI Thesaurus)
Risk factors include: • Getting older • Being small and thin • Having a family history of osteoporosis • Taking certain medicines • Being a white or Asian woman • Having osteopenia, which is low bone density
(Osteoporosis, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)
Which exams and screenings you need depends on your age, health and family history, and lifestyle choices such as what you eat, how active you are, and whether you smoke.
(Health Checkup, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Other causes are stress, a low protein diet, a family history, or poor nutrition.
(Hair Loss, NIH)
A subject domain utilized for the submission of information encompassing and representing data, vocabulary or records related to family history.
(Family History Domain, NCI Thesaurus)
They include: • African Americans over age 40 • People over age 60, especially Mexican Americans • People with a family history of glaucoma
(Glaucoma, NIH: National Eye Institute)
People with a family history of bladder cancer or who are older, white, or male have a higher risk.
(Bladder Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
To diagnose mental health problems, the doctor or mental health specialist looks at your child's signs and symptoms, medical history, and family history.
(Child Mental Health, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)
Many of these babies had a family history of SCID and were diagnosed before the onset of infections.
(Early treatment benefits infants with severe combined immunodeficiency, NIH)
They have been implicated in as many as 10 percent of inherited forms of the disease and in about 4 percent of patients who have no family history.
(Too much protein may kill brain cells as Parkinson’s progresses, NINDS)
