People with family history of certain diseases often underestimate their risk
People with a family history of certain diseases, including heart disease and diabetes, often underestimate their risk for developing them, even after completing a risk assessment and receiving personalized prevention messages, finds a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Sixty-eight percent of respondents believe that consanguineous marriage - the union of two biologically-related people, including, most controversially, first cousins- should be discouraged due to ``increased risks of genetic illnesses including physical deformities and mental illness''.