Family Health History and Chronic Disease

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If you have a family health history of a chronic disease like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or osteoporosis, you are more likely to get that disease yourself. Share your family health history with your doctor, who can help you take steps to prevent disease and catch it early if it develops.

Learn more about what having a family health history of each of these conditions means for you:

Breast & Ovarian Cancer
three women
Colorectal (Colon) Cancer
an elderly couple in a hospital talking to a doctor
Diabetes
a family eating a healthy meal
Hereditary Hemochromatosis
elderly parents with two adult children
Osteoporosis
a daughter hugging an elderly mother in a wheelchair
Heart Disease
a African American multi-generational family