Types Of Diseases That Can Arise Due To Heredity

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JAKARTA - Hereditary disease is a disease that occurs due to genetic mutations. This is a disease that occurs in people who are related by blood from generation to generation. The main cause of hereditary diseases is the presence of genetic disorders that are carried by parents.

Hereditary diseases are usually difficult to cure because they are carried in a person's genes and occur in cells that are formed before birth. In order for you to understand more about hereditary diseases, VOI will share information regarding what types of diseases can arise due to heredity. The following are the most common:

Hemophilia

Hemophilia or blood clotting disease is a hereditary disease that is difficult to cure. If the body of a person with hemophilia is injured, it will likely take a long time for treatment because it is quite difficult to stop bleeding in the wound.

Diabetes

Apart from hemophilia, diabetes is also a hereditary disease. This disease often occurs since childhood. People with inherited diabetes are usually categorized as type 1 diabetes. If you already know your parents' medical history, you should adjust your diet and stay away from sweet foods.

Cancer

Not only lifestyle factors, cancer can also be inherited. However, this disease has a small chance of about 5 percent to 10 percent. Still, you need to find out if you have this hereditary disease because you will inherit it from your offspring after starting a family.

Thalassemia

Thalassemia is a disease that attacks the blood. Children born to parents with thalassemia will live with anemia, so they need continuous blood transfusions.

Asthma

One of the diseases that can be inherited in heredity is asthma. Asthma is a genetic disease because gene disorders are passed from parents to children. However, the pattern of heredity is not simple by sequencing the chromosomes or genes of the parents.