Risk Assessments

What's your risk for developing a certain disease?

Risk assessments are questionnaires developed by the medical community to help identify an individual's potential for acquiring a specific disease or disorder. Based on analysis of thousands of patient case histories, risk assessments seek to correlate a person's background (factoring in such variables as race, age, family history, etc.) and current or past behaviors (eating habits, smoking, etc.) with their chances for developing a specific disease.

These assessments can be useful tools to enhance your awareness of particular risks and should lead you to information which suggests ways to change current behaviors to potentially improve and preserve your future health.

Click on the links below for a variety of health risk assessments:

Breast Cancer

• Breast Self Exam

Colorectal Cancer

• Colon Cancer Screening Questionnaire
• Colorectal Cancer Screening: Agency for Healthcare Policy and Research
• Screen for Life: the National Colorectal Screening Program

Diabetes

• Defeat Diabetes® Screening Test
• National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse

Heart Disease

• Affairs of the Heart's "A Woman's Heart" Risk Questionnaire
• American Heart Association (general information)
• MI-HEART Pilot Study
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
  Third Report of the Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults ( Adult Treatment Panel III)
• NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Preventive Cardiology Program

Stroke

• American Heart Association's Heart Disease and Stroke