medium · NCLEX-RN health-promotion
The nurse is reviewing the family pedigree of a client. The client's father had HD, but the client's 60-year-old mother is healthy. The client is 35 and asymptomatic.
Which statement by the nurse accurately describes the client's risk?
- Since you have reached age 35 without symptoms, your risk of having the gene has dropped to nearly zero.
- Your risk is lower because your mother is healthy and likely passed you a protective gene.
- Because your father had the condition, you have a 50% chance of having inherited the gene expansion.
- You only have a risk if your father's symptoms started before he was 40 years old.
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