Health Related Family Tree

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There may be many benefits from recording your family’s health information.

Many chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, some forms of cancer and mental illness can run in families. Some women, for example, maybe at an increased risk of developing breast cancer if they have a family history of a particular form of cancer.

Knowledge of your family history may mean that these risk factors are identified and this could enable you and other family members to initiate preventative action to lessen the disease burden of future generations.

Listen to Ian’s story and hear how utilising his family history helped to prevent his premature departure.

Louise’s story is also interesting as it highlights the difficulties faced by adoptees if they have little knowledge of their birthparents health history.

The first step is to map out your family’s health history.

We have created a simple interactive form which will assist you to record your family health history. Use the family tree maker to record your family’s afflictions and print out for future reference.

The design will help you identify patterns of illnesses and risk factors that may effect your family. Talk to your doctor if you are concerned about what this means for your family.