Researchers in the United Kingdom had found that if a person's DNA is prone to some diseases, it has no impact on how they live their lifestyle. Stopping cigarette, cutting on alcohol and more exercise to reduce the risk will not reduce the risk.
A group of experts from Imperial College London, University of Manchester, and University of Cambridge found that informing people about the disease they may get genetically including heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's can effectively change the way they live their lifestyle. The groups also assess 18 research papers to prove that diseases like cancers can effectively affect the way they live.
According to Independent, BMJ revealed that informing people of the risk for getting some serious disease from their DNA did not affect them to change their lifestyle. It also did not make them attend some behavioral support programs.
The authors said they expect people to change when they were informed about the findings. "The available evidence does not provide support for the expectations raised by researchers and proponents of personalized medicine as well as direct-to-consumer testing companies that the receipt of results from DNA-based tests for gene variants that confer increased risk of common complex diseases motivates behavior change," according to the authors.
According to Archy UK, the study were printed the following from the all-party parliamentary group on medicine, goal of enhancing the NHS, and use of technology that would modernize healthcare. UK scientists revealed that informing that their DNA is prone to particular illnesses has "little or no impact" on unhealthy conduct.
"The outcomes of this up-to-date systematic review #8230; claim that interacting DNA-based disease risk estimations has little if any effect on risk-reducing health conduct," they concluded. The chance that a person would quit smoking and drinking alcohol is advised to do more exercise to lessen the danger.
