Open AccessDoes Family History Have any Relevance to Clinical Practice in Cardiology?
Author(s) -
Conti C. Richard
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.20556
Subject(s) - medicine , family history , presentation (obstetrics) , clinical history , chest pain , clinical practice , medical history , relevance (law) , intensive care medicine , family medicine , pediatrics , cardiology , surgery , political science , law
Abstract Years ago it was common to include all aspects of the history in the presentation, including the family history. In more recent times when there are multiple admissions of patients with cardiac symptoms (e.g., chest pain), the details of the present illness and any past cardiovascular illnesses are generally presented in detail, but there is a tendency to pay little attention to the family history and it is often neglected. Copyright © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.