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Nutrition Counseling – An International Perspective | ACFF

Nutrition counseling has an important place in the dental care setting given the clear relationship between dietary factors and dental caries and the association between obesity, diabetes and periodontitis. Nutritional counseling can be defined as a cooperative mode of interaction between the patient and health care provider aimed to assist patients in adopting healthy dietary behaviors associa...

From genetic counseling to “genomic counseling”

Genetic counseling is “the process of helping people understand and adapt to the medical, psychological, and familial implications of genetic contributions to disease.” Traditionally, this process includes collecting and interpreting the family and medical history, risk assessment, a comprehensive educational process for potential genetic testing, informed consent, and psychosocial assessment a...

Pedigree Analysis for Genetic Counseling

We report on the design and implementation of a prototype program, GENINFER  , to assist genetic counselors in evaluating the risk of recurrence of genetic disorders based on the analysis of family pedigrees. The present version of the program integrates a convenient graphical interface that permits counselors to draw, examine and modify family pedigrees and to enter information relevant to ri...

Genetic counseling.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this review of genetic counseling (GC) is to describe the current concepts and philosophical and ethical principles accepted by the great majority of countries and recommended by the World Health Organization, the stages of the process, its results and the psychological impact that a genetic disease has on a family. SOURCES The concepts presented are based on an his...

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