Then add grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Talk or write to each person to find out his or her health history. Look for diseases such as coronary artery disease, stroke, arthritis, cancer, high blood pressure and diabetes. Why and How Fill in the details. In general, the more often and earlier a condition occurs in your relatives, the more likely you may be at risk.
Benefits far outweigh the risks in most cases when a blood transfusion is needed.
Today, your chances of getting AIDS from a blood transfusion are between 1 in 500,000 and 1 in a million. Those are not bad odds when you consider your chances in any given year of being killed in a car accident are 1 in 11,000. There will always be some risk in receiving a blood transfusion. However, better screening and testing make today s blood supply safer than ever before. But Caution Still Advised Scientists are working to help make the egg more healthful by developing low-cholesterol eggs, eggs with beneficial fatty acids and pasteurized eggs, according to the March issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter.