{"id":4696,"date":"2016-03-16T13:56:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T17:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4696"},"modified":"2016-03-18T14:14:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:14:01","slug":"knowing-your-risk-wont-change-your-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/knowing-your-risk-wont-change-your-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing your risk won&#8217;t change your behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increasingly genetic tests are being offered that suggest if you know your risk for something, you\u2019ll be more likely to change your behaviour; but new research is suggesting this isn\u2019t the case. In a review study authors found having information genetic risk had little or no effect on people\u2019s diet, or smoking or exercise habits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/352\/bmj.i1102\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research\u00a0paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0the <em>BMJ\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>March\u00a015<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Theresa M Marteau, Behaviour and Health Research Unit, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasingly genetic tests are being offered that suggest if you know your risk for something, you\u2019ll be more likely to change your behaviour; but new research is suggesting this isn\u2019t the case. In a review study authors found having information genetic risk had little or no effect on people\u2019s diet, or smoking or exercise habits. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1dK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4711,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions\/4711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}