Development of an Algorithm for Determining of Genetic Risk at the Primary Healthcare Level – A New Tool for Primary Prevention: A Study Protocol

Abstract

Family history (FH) is an important part of the patients’ medical history during preventive management at model family medicine practices (MFMP). It currently includes a one (or two) generational inquiry, predominately in terms of cardiovascular diseases, arterial hypertension, and diabetes, but not of other diseases with a probable genetic aetiology. Beside family history, no application-based algorithm is available to determine the risk level for specific chronic diseases in Slovenia.

Keywords

• family medicine
• pedigree
• family history
• genetic predisposition
• population at risk
• družinska medicina
• rodovniki
• družinska anamneza
• genetska predispozicija
• tveganju izpostavljena populacija