Even perceived risk of disease prompts intention to act

Saturday, December 6, 2014 - 16:00 in Health & Medicine

With so much focus on risk factors for disease, we are living in an era of surveillance medicine, in which the emphasis on risk blurs the lines between health and illness, argue researchers. A nationwide survey of American adults was conducted to determine if healthy people react to hypothetical genetic risk information by wanting to take action.

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