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Chronic Disease and Family History Fact Sheets
Fact sheets published by the Minnesota Department of Health (pdf):
Arthritis
Asthma
Breast Cancer
Cardiovascular Disease
Colorectal Cancer
Depression
Diabetes
Hypertension
Obesity
Osteoporosis
Prostate Cancer
Family History Health Toolkit
What Does My Family History Tell Me About My Health Risks?
Instructions for collecting and interpreting a family health history to screen for familial chronic disease risk (pdf)
Your Family Health Tree: A Guide Resources to help you learn your family health history (pdf)
Utah Department of Health Family History Website
The website of the Utah Department of Health Chronic Disease Program
CDC National Office of Public Health Genomics Family History
Centers for Disease Control website subsection on family history
 US Surgeon General's Family History Initiative
Health care professionals have known for a long time that common diseases - heart disease, cancer, and diabetes - and even rare diseases - like hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell anemia - can run in families. If one generation of a family has high blood pressure, it is not unusual for the next generation to have similarly high blood pressure. Tracing the illnesses suffered by your parents, grandparents, and other blood relatives can help your doctor predict the disorders to which you may be at risk and take action to keep you and your family healthy.
To help focus attention on the importance of family history, the U.S. Surgeon General in cooperation with other agencies with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a national public health campaign, called the U.S. Surgeon General's Family History Initiative, to encourage all American families to learn more about their family health history.
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