Table 4.
Interest in receiving personal genomic information about risk of four complex diseases among 205 outpatients at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, June to Sept 2010
| Participant response options | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No definitely not | No probably not | Yes probably | Yes definitely | |||||
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
| Heart diseasea | 10 | 4.9 | 11 | 5.4 | 44 | 21.5 | 139 | 67.8 |
| Type 2 diabetesa | 10 | 4.9 | 8 | 3.9 | 48 | 23.4 | 138 | 67.3 |
| Cancera | 14 | 6.8 | 7 | 3.4 | 40 | 19.5 | 143 | 69.8 |
| Obesitya | 23 | 11.2 | 16 | 7.8 | 40 | 19.5 | 124 | 60.5 |
aOne individual responded “don’t know” or chose not to answer