In the October issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings*, analyzed a group of Mayo Clinic physicians and bioethicists, whether these genetic tests cause patients experiencing excessive worry about diseases developing. 'We have evidence of an increased concern about disease alone saw based on genetic risk factors, and then, the concern the concern 'changes in health out habits, says co-author Clayton Cowl, a specialist in preventive, occupational and aerospace medicine and a physician at the Mayo Clinic Executive Health Program.
Were.. The randomized study patients increased tendency moderate one week after genetic testing concerns, and that people worry more about unknown diseases, such as the thyroid condition Graves' disease, as is well known, such as diabetes. A year later, however, were patients who test was subjected to no more than those who do not had emphasized. Was a surprising finding that men whose genetic risk for prostate cancer was found to be lower than the of the general population and had normal laboratory and physical screening results for the disease much less stressed about the disease than the control group. ...continue reading In the October issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings*.