{"id":344,"date":"2018-04-09T16:02:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T15:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoscience.org\/?p=344"},"modified":"2020-03-31T14:43:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T13:43:22","slug":"344","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/09\/344\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia to give DNA test and advice to citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Biology<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Health and Medi<\/i><\/strong><strong><i>cine<br \/>\n<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i> <\/i>Date: April, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Source: <i>New Scientist<\/i><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Estonia plans to test the DNA structure of 100,000 residents and give advice regarding their predispositions to certain diseases so that they could adopt healthier lifestyles and take preventive measures.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We want to invest in preventing or delaying the onset of common chronic diseases by using genetics to identify people at high risk,&#8221; says Jevgeni Ossinovski, Estonia&#8217;s minister of health and labour.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The country plans to do it eventually for the entire population.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Source: <i>New Scientist, April 7-13, 2018<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biology Health and Medicine Date: April, 2018 Source: New Scientist Estonia plans to test the DNA structure of 100,000 residents and give advice regarding their predispositions to certain diseases so that they could adopt healthier lifestyles and take preventive measures. &#8220;We want to invest in preventing or delaying the onset of common chronic diseases by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/09\/344\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Estonia to give DNA test and advice to citizens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,31],"tags":[99,84],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-medicine-health","tag-dna","tag-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}