We’ve all heard the benefits of managing our Personal Health Records (PHR’s) in order to facilitate doctor’s appointments and keep track of our health histories. But one important aspect of your health is often overlooked: your family’s medical history.
Medical conditions emerge at different times throughout everyone’s lives. Knowing there is a history of a certain type of disease in your family is crucial to your future wellbeing. If your grandmother and your aunt both have breast cancer, you’re at a much higher risk of encountering this cancer too. Knowing your family’s history helps you get an early jump on the detection of not only cancers, but also other hereditary conditions.
Back in June, the Wall Street Journal published a great article called The Life-Saving Secrets in Your Family Tree. The article explains that knowing the history of a certain type of disease in your family can, in most cases, be more beneficial than actually having a genetic test completed for that illness.
Orggit helps to facilitate the maintenance of your Family History by allowing you to easily track important medical information about your family. Everything from relationship, date of births, date of deaths, cause of deaths, and any medical conditions can be recorded (and sorted) within Orggit. The best remedy is early detection.
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