Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100513:00:44:00
Not much you can do to change the risk factors so if someone says yeah you're at a higher risk of alzheimer's disease than the average person there's not much you're going to do. if somebody says you're higher risk of diabetes, you can exercise and lose weight but to tell you the truth you can do that anyway without spending a few hundred dollars on a genetic test. >> what about somebody who has a family history of disease, breast cancer, for example, would this be good for them? >> you know, i think, john, that's the place where genetic testing does have a role. if you have a pattern of disea...