{"id":17891,"date":"2016-08-04T06:39:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T06:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/?p=17891"},"modified":"2023-03-30T11:00:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T07:00:56","slug":"much-information-bad-health-impact-genetic-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/much-information-bad-health-impact-genetic-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Is too much information bad for your health? The impact of genetic testing"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The article was originally published by Khaleej Times | Kelly Clarke | July 31, 2016<\/p>\n

In today’s ever-evolving world, genetic testing can be used to predict an individual’s risk to different types of disease. Breast cancer, Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s disease: If you had the chance to find out if either of these diseases awaits you or your offspring, would you?<\/p>\n

If you answered yes, what would you do with the information? And more importantly, how do you think it would affect your psychological well-being?<\/h2>\n

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<\/object><\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”17898″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”img_link_large”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It has the potential to play an important role in both the prevention and treatment of disease. But the anxiety caused by mis-testing or an unexpected positive result can play havoc with a person’s psychological well-being if the right support system is not in place.<\/p>\n

With a severe shortage of genetic counsellors here – in fact, only two certified genetic counsellors in the UAE – it is vital the public is educated on the benefits and drawbacks of learning this type of information.<\/p>\n

And it begs the question: Is too much information bad for your health?<\/h2>\n
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The article was originally published by Khaleej Times | Kelly Clarke | July 31, 2016 | Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The article was originally published by Khaleej Times | Kelly Clarke | July 31, 2016 In today’s ever-evolving world, genetic testing can be used to predict an individual’s risk to different types of disease. Breast cancer, Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s disease: If you had the chance to find out if either of these diseases awaits you or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}