How does family size influence patterns of disease? Best answer up for grabs!?
This is an interesting subject which many people have and currently are debating. In general I think that family size is a factor in the pattern of disease but that it may have positive or negative effects depending on which disease. The two links below give an example of each where with asthma having a larger family decreased the prevalence and with MS it was shown that those from a larger family were more at risk for developing MS. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/5600… http://www.direct-ms.org/pdf/GeneticsMS/… Genetics plays a huge role in disease but environment also is a factor so you would have to take into account that too. As for family size I believe that it has decreased over the years. One of the main reasons for having a bigger family previously was so that there would be people to work on the family farm. Now with
