Asthma
Asthma is a condition in which your airways narrow and swell and may produce extra mucus.
Cancer
A term for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and can invade nearby tissues.
Diabetes
Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your blood glucose, also called blood sugar, is too high.
Environmental Factors
Environmental factors, as related to genetics, refers to exposures to substances (such as pesticides or industrial waste) where we live or work, behaviors (such as smoking or poor diet) that can increase an individual's risk of disease or stressful situations (such as racism).
Family Health History
Family health history is a record of the diseases and health conditions in your family
Family Tree
A family tree is a chart that shows all the people in a family over many generations and their relationship to one another
Gene
The basic unit of heredity passed from parent to child.
Genealogy
a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor.
Genetics
Genetics is the study of how genes and how traits are passed down from one generation to the next.
Heart Disease
A type of disease that affects the heart or blood vessels.
High Cholesterol
High cholesterol is when you have too much of a fatty substance called cholesterol in your blood
Heredity
he sum of all biological processes by which particular characteristics are transmitted from parents to their offspring.
Hypertension
when the pressure in your blood vessels is too high (140/90 mmHg or higher).
Medical History
A record of information about a person's health.
Risk factor for disease
- tobacco use.
- the harmful use of alcohol.
- raised blood pressure (or hypertension)
- physical inactivity.
- raised cholesterol.
- overweight/obesity.
- unhealthy diet.
- raised blood glucose.
Obesity
Obesity means having too much body fat
Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a bone disease that develops when bone mineral density and bone mass decreases, or when the structure and strength of bone changes
Predisposition
the state of being likely to behave in a particular way or to suffer from a particular disease
Preventive Care
Preventive and routine care is care that helps prevent health problems or finds them before they become serious
Stroke
A stroke, sometimes called a brain attack, occurs when something blocks blood supply to part of the brain or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts