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'Professor Gramling highlights our findings that discussions about familial risk need to include not only probabilities and epidemiological data, but also go 'beyond maths' to engage with the psychosocial and cultural meaning of familial risk to our patients.
We have used the findings from this review to inform an interview study of people from primary care with a family history of diabetes, heart disease or can...
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“Genetics in Primary Care” has received growing attention over the last decade. During this time, we have also recognized the need to address systems, interpersonal and socio-cultural barriers to patient- centered communication in the busy practice setting. The convergence of these forces has many concerned about how we will translate probabilistic results of genetic risk assessment into meaningful communication with ou...
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Walter and colleagues’ article reports exemplary qualitative research.1 They induced plausible third-order constructs that describe how individuals understand and respond to their family history of chronic disease—salience, personalizing, personal sense of vulnerability, and coping and control. These findings are important in the genome era, and in light of information about higher relative risk associated with sibling ve...
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