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White matter microstructure in late middle-age: Effects of apolipoprotein E4 and parental family history of Alzheimer's disease

NeuroImage: Clinical, 2014
Introduction: Little is still known about the effects of risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD) on white matter microstructure in cognitively healthy adults.
Nagesh Adluru, Daniel J. Destiche, Sharon Yuan-Fu Lu, Samuel T. Doran, Alex C. Birdsill, Kelsey E. Melah, Ozioma C. Okonkwo, Andrew L. Alexander, N. Maritza Dowling, Sterling C. Johnson, Mark A. Sager, Barbara B. Bendlin   +11 more
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Family History of Modifiable Risk Factors and Association With Future Cardiovascular Disease

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2023
Background A parental history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) confers greater risk of future CVD among offspring. Whether the presence of parental modifiable risk factors contribute to or modify CVD risk in offspring is unclear.
Christy N. Taylor, Dongyu Wang, Martin G. Larson, Emily S. Lau, Emelia J. Benjamin, Ralph B. D'Agostino, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Daniel Levy, Susan Cheng, Jennifer E. Ho   +9 more
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Psychosocial Outcomes in Patients With Endocrine Tumor Syndromes: A Systematic Review

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction The combination of disease manifestations, the familial burden, and varying penetrance of endocrine tumor syndromes (ETSs) is unique. This review aimed to portray and summarize available data on psychosocial outcomes in patients with ETSs and explore gaps and opportunities for future research and care.
Daniël Zwerus, Floortje Strobbe, Annemarie A. Verrijn Stuart, Hanneke M. van Santen, Gerlof D. Valk, Sasja A. Schepers, Rachel S. van Leeuwaarde   +6 more
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Prevalence and Cardiovascular Health Impact of Family History of Premature Heart Disease in the United States: Analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007–2014

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2019
Background Because family history is a known risk factor for heart disease, it is important to characterize its public health impact in terms of population prevalence of family history of heart disease, the burden of heart disease attributable to family ...
Ramal Moonesinghe, Quanhe Yang, Zefeng Zhang, Muin J. Khoury   +3 more
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A Long-Term Study of Sons of Alcoholics. [PDF]

, 1995
Men with a family history of alcoholism appear to have a lower intensity reaction to alcohol's effects than those without this family history. This study investigated whether a lower reaction could encourage greater alcohol consumption among family ...
Schuckit, Marc A
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Survival for Children Diagnosed With Wilms Tumour (2012–2022) Registered in the UK and Ireland Improving Population Outcomes for Renal Tumours of Childhood (IMPORT) Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Improving Population Outcomes for Renal Tumours of childhood (IMPORT) is a prospective clinical observational study capturing detailed demographic and outcome data on children and young people diagnosed with renal tumours in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Naomi Ssenyonga, Angela Lopez‐Cortes, Reem Al‐Saadi, Suzanne Tugnait, Kristina Dzhuma, Catriona Duncan, Gordan Vujanic, Tanzina Chowdhury, Claudia Allemani, Michel P. Coleman, Kathy Pritchard‐Jones, the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) Renal Tumour Special Interest Group, Hugh Bishop, Anthony McCarthy, Pamela Kearns, Helen Rees, Amos Burke, Meriel Jenney, Jane Pears, Hamish Wallace, Milind Ronghe, Tanzina Chowdhury, Susan Picton, Emma Ross, Lisa Howell, Bernadette Brennan, Gail Halliday, Richard Grundy, Shaun Wilson, Sucheta Vaidya, Daniel Yeomanson, Jessica Bate, Vesna Pavasovic, Jessica Bate, Sabine Irtan, Jesper Brok, Minou Oostveen, Kristina Dzhuma, Mark Weeks, Richard Williams, Mark Powis, Max Pachl, Bruce Okoye, Naima Smeulders, Gordan Vujanic, Oystein Olsen, Tom Watson, Susan Shelmerdine, Dan Saunders, Angela Lopez-Cortes, Taryn Treger, Tom Jackson, Suzanne Tugnait, Lisa Howell, Tanzina Chowdhury, Sam Behjati, Angela Polanco   +56 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reframing the History of American Genealogy: On the Paradigm of Democratization and the Capitalization of Longing

Genealogy, 2022
Genealogy is one of the most popular sociocultural pursuits in modern U.S. history. During recent decades, scholars of the history of American genealogy and family history have forwarded an argument that its development since the 19th century is ...
Adam Hjorthén
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Family History Project [PDF]

, 2014
The HTC invited students to trace their family history with a ...
Boston University Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground
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Semantic Memory Activation in Individuals at Risk for Developing Alzheimer Disease [PDF]

, 2009
Objective: To determine whether whole-brain, event-related fMRI can distinguish healthy older adults with known Alzheimer disease (AD) risk factors (family history, APOE ε4) from controls using a semantic memory task involving discrimination of famous ...
Antuono, Piero, Durgerian, Sally, Guidotti, Leslie, Nielson, Kristy A., Rao, Stephen M., Seidenberg, Michael, Woodard, John L., Zhang, Q.   +7 more
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Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiotoxic Treatment Risks in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Higher doses of anthracyclines and heart‐relevant radiotherapy increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study assessed CVD and CVD risk factors among adult childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) across cardiotoxic treatment risk groups and examined associations between lifestyle behaviors and treatment risks.
Ruijie Li, Raquel Revuelta Iniesta, Alan R. Barker, Dimitris Vlachopoulos, Tomáš Sláma, Christina Schindera, Fabiën N. Belle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source