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Genetic Testing – What's In It For Me?

Jun 12, 2018 2:57:48 PM / by Anna Airikkala-Eghaghara posted in genes, genetics, Genome Center, Medication, Personalized Medicine, Pharmacogenetics, Snips, Blog, DNA, Genetic Tests, genome

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[vc_section full_width="stretch_row" css=".vc_custom_1521399930428{background-image: url(https://www.geneaccount.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/perhe_haalea.jpg?id=30714) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}"][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title_level="h4" title="Genetic Testing – What's In It For Me?" color="black"][vc_single_image image="32175" img_size="full"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1528804075816{padding-top: 50px !important;}"]Understanding genetics is fairly simple and straightforward. But how to implement the data into practice – that’s where in-depth understanding steps in. One can find out their whole genome for about 1,000 € - but what do you do with all that information? The data itself does not benefit an ordinary consumer and it does not affect one’s daily behavior. I would go as far as claiming, that knowing one’s full genome is not even nice-to-know information without having the understanding of how to utilize it.

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Depression Medication - Same Size Doesn't Fit All

May 21, 2018 1:45:01 PM / by Anna Airikkala-Eghaghara posted in genes, Medication, Medicine, Pharmacogenetics, Research, Antidepressants, Blog, Depression, Genetic Tests

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[vc_section full_width="stretch_row" css=".vc_custom_1521399930428{background-image: url(https://www.geneaccount.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/perhe_haalea.jpg?id=30714) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}"][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title_level="h4" title="Depression Medication - Same Size Doesn't Fit All" color="black"][vc_single_image image="31867" img_size="full"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1526973593373{padding-top: 50px !important;}"]Finnish Media Company MTV reported in May 2018, that in Finland every single day as many as nine individuals are driven out of the working life due to a diagnosed depression. This alarming phenomenon has caused the amount of under 35-year-old retirees to increase for a third during the last ten years. These statistics are mind blowing!

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Struck by a Stroke

Mar 21, 2018 4:01:21 PM / by Anna Airikkala-Eghaghara posted in Marevan, Medication, Peronalized Medicine, Pharmacogenetics, Plavix, Sports, Stroke, Blog, Clopidogrel

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[vc_section full_width="stretch_row" css=".vc_custom_1522996877348{background-image: url(https://www.geneaccount.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/perhe_haalea.jpg?id=30714) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}"][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title="Struck by a Stroke" color="black"][gem_youtube video_id="BK5my-Puse0"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1521666725618{padding-top: 50px !important;}"]When you hear someone you know, suffered from a stroke, it does not seem likely that it could happen to you. Especially if you are fairly fit, exercise regularly and are barely past the middle age. In case of Jarmo Aaltonen, an active sales person from Turku, this was the case.

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Side Effects Without Benefits

Mar 11, 2018 2:26:27 PM / by Anna Airikkala-Eghaghara posted in Medical Safety, Medication, Pharmacogenetics, Prescription Medicine, Private Healthcare, Public Healthcare, Side Effects, Blog

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[vc_section full_width="stretch_row" css=".vc_custom_1522997191830{background-image: url(https://www.geneaccount.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/tausta_keltainen.jpg?id=30580) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}"][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title="Side Effects Without Benefits"][gem_youtube video_id="n5tE0h5XfTs"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1521665107681{padding-top: 50px !important;}"]As for a 69-year-old woman, Airi was no exception. She had been prescribed several medications: there was one for high blood pressure, for cholesterol, sweating and stomach related symptoms. It was quite a handful to keep a record of.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]In comparison, Airi was more or less an average within her peer medication wise. Consuming this many medications often come with unwanted side-effects. Airi’s unpleasant symptoms included nausea and dizziness, irregular temperature and bloating. It also influenced her mentally, depression was affecting her quality of life.

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