Your Disease Risk

An aid to assessing individual risks of 5 common chronic conditions is now available on the internet from Washington University in St. Louis. A few clicks of the mouse tell visitors to the "Your Disease Risk" Web site their risk for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke and osteoporosis. The Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis recently launched this easy-to-use tool, which offers a wealth of information about risk factors and prevention strategies for five prominent diseases affecting millions of Americans. This tool should probably be available on all public health web sites, until a better one is found.