How do people interpret their family histories of diabetes, coronary disease, or cancer?

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 532-533

  Acheson, Louise S ^a   Crabtree, Benjamin F ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic disease prevention; Explanatory models of disease; Meta analysis; Qualitative analysis methods; Salience

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; FAMILY HISTORY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROPHYLAXIS; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAMILY HEALTH; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 10444274921     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.247     Document Type: Editorial

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