Uncover Your Health Risks
Crittenton Genetic Services can help you understand your inherited risks.
Thanks to the launch of Crittenton Genetic Services, now you can more easily determine your risk. We’re proud to announce we’ve partnered with DNAdirect®, an organization that works with select hospitals internationally to bring genomics knowledge and access to genetic services through web-enabled tools (a personalized medicine portal) and genetic counseling to physicians and their patients.
“Genomics is the application of the field of genetic analysis,” explains Frank Sottile, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Crittenton. “It’s a developing field that aims to identify an individual’s genetic traits and more accurately guide them through their health planning processes.”
Evaluating Your Risks
Experts now understand that certain neurological, oncological, and cardiac diseases have distinct genetic patterns. “If your mother, cousin, or grandfather had a particular disease and you want to know your risk or your children’s likelihood of contracting that disease, Crittenton can now help provide an answer,” Dr. Sottile says. “This allows physicians to provide more precise counseling and advice to patients in terms of the next steps they can take to help reduce their risk and improve their quality of life.”
Because such an abundance of health related information exists on the Internet, it can be difficult to know which sites are reliable. By working with DNAdirect, Crittenton hopes to take away the guesswork for patients by providing high-quality, peer-reviewed information that is accurate, credible, and up-to-date. “This capability is available to all Crittenton physicians and their patients,” Dr. Sottile says.
Simply inquire about DNAdirect or genomics at your next appointment, call Crittenton directly at (888) 904-HEALTH (4325) for more information, or explore the Personalized Medicine Portal at www.crittenton.com and click the “Genetic Services” button on the bottom left of the home page.