... health perspectives is challenging and remains to be fully explored. In this review, we focus on (a) how various risk factors for cervical cancer can influence the epigenetic plasticity and (b) application of epigenetics in cervical cancer from public health and personalized medicine perspectives...

... of family health history and related risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes influence their likelihood of adopting a preventive behavior. Methods: This study employed an anonymous pencil-and-paper, self-administered survey consisting of two sections. Section 1 was a modified version of the US Surgeon...

...Lena C.A. Vink-van Os; Erwin Birnie; Elsbeth H. van Vliet-Lachotzki; Gouke J. Bonsel; Eric A.P. Steegers Aim: To measure the prevalence of health risk factors in women who are preparing for pregnancy, using an online publicly available questionnaire aimed at identifying personal and pre-conception...

... the clinical validity (sensitivity, specificity) of family history of stroke as an indicator of stroke risk. Stroke and the related medical conditions were self-reported. Results: Independent of other risk factors, people with a high familial risk for stroke were 4 times more likely to have had a stroke (95...