{"id":19213,"date":"2017-01-27T14:48:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T22:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalfitnessnetwork.org\/public\/?p=19213"},"modified":"2017-01-24T15:23:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:23:44","slug":"learn-genetic-risk-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/all-mfn\/learn-genetic-risk-alzheimers-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Learn Your Genetic Risk for Alzheimer\u2019s Disease?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14901\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14901\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14901\" src=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/summerfall2014-genome-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/summerfall2014-genome-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/summerfall2014-genome.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spring\/Fall 2014 Issue<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Alzheimer\u2019s disease might provide one of the best opportunities to understand how people cope with unsettling genetic news, says Robert Green, a neurologist and medical geneticist at Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just about the scariest disease that you can think of, and there\u2019s no treatment,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s sort of the worst case scenario for anxiety and stress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green has been involved in a series of studies, part of a research effort dubbed REVEAL (Risk Evaluation and Education for Alzheimer\u2019s Disease), looking at the psychological and practical ripple effects of testing positive for APOE4, a risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer\u2019s. It turns out that the participants, who have a parent with the disease but no symptoms themselves, handle a positive finding relatively well. \u201cThey are unhappy,\u201d Green says. \u201cBut they do not have catastrophic reactions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/genomemag.com\/2014\/08\/why-learn-your-genetic-risk-for-alzheimers-disease\/#.WIfYk1MrLIV\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article at Genome Magazine\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/consumer-portal\/medical-health-partners\/genome-magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Genome Magazine<\/a>\u2018s mission is to explore the world of personalized medicine and the genomic revolution that makes it possible, empowering you to make informed health decisions that will help you live better and longer.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alzheimer\u2019s disease might provide one of the best opportunities to understand how people cope with unsettling genetic news, says Robert Green, a neurologist and medical geneticist at Harvard Medical School. \u201cIt\u2019s just about the scariest disease that you can think of, and there\u2019s no treatment,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s sort of the worst case scenario for anxiety and stress.\u201d Green has been involved in a series of studies, part of a research effort dubbed REVEAL (Risk Evaluation and Education for Alzheimer\u2019s Disease), looking at the psychological and practical ripple effects of testing positive for APOE4, a risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer\u2019s. It turns out that the participants, who have a parent with the disease but no symptoms themselves, handle a positive finding relatively well. \u201cThey are unhappy,\u201d Green says. \u201cBut they do not have catastrophic reactions.\u201d Read the full article at Genome Magazine\u00a0\u00bb Genome Magazine\u2018s mission is to explore the world of personalized medicine and the genomic revolution that makes it possible, empowering you to make informed health decisions that will help you live better and longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":14901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-mfn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}