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Sara Cherny1,2, Sarah Jurgensmeyer Langas1,2, Miguel Moran1,2
1Division of Cardiology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Journal of genetic counseling
|November 25, 2025
概括
心血管遗传顾问 (GCs) 讨论遗传测试对生命保险 (LI) 的影响,患者的表型是主要因素. 许多一般医生报告说,患者担心基因歧视和LI否认.
科学领域:
- 医学遗传学 医学遗传学
- 遗传咨询 遗传咨询
- 心血管疾病 心血管疾病
背景情况:
- 遗传咨询师 (GCs) 在教育患者关于遗传检测方面发挥着至关重要的作用.
- 生命保险 (LI) 中遗传数据的监管环境在全球和美国内部各不相同.
- 了解GC如何讨论LI影响对于患者护理和基因测试的普及至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 评估心血管医疗顾问如何将关于人寿保险的讨论纳入患者咨询.
- 确定影响GC讨论基因测试LI影响的因素.
- 探索与基因检测相关的遗传歧视和LI拒绝的患者经历.
主要方法:
- 一项跨国在线调查分发给了121个心血管GC.
- 参与者被介绍了涉及非综合征性心血管疾病的临床情景.
- 该调查评估了基于患者表型,年龄和国籍的LI讨论的可能性.
主要成果:
- 患者的表型是关于GC是否讨论LI的最强有力的预测因素 (例如,表型阴性儿科的62%,表型阳性儿科的29%).
- 非美国的临床医生比美国的临床医生更有可能与表型阳性患者讨论LI (61%对33%).
- 基因歧视 (77%) 和LI否认 (21%) 的恐惧是由GC报告的;不足的时间 (31%) 是讨论的障碍.
结论:
- 患者的表型显著影响心血管医生讨论遗传测试对生命保险的影响的决定.
- 国籍和患者年龄也起着作用,非美国的医疗顾问和那些看病的成年人更有可能讨论LI.
- 解决患者对歧视的恐惧和提高时间效率对于生命保险的综合遗传咨询至关重要.
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