Genes, Vol. 11, Pages 747: Precision and Personalized Medicine: How Genomic Approach Improves the Management of Cardiovascular and Neurodegenerative Disease

Genes, Vol. 11, Pages 747: Precision and Personalized Medicine: How Genomic Approach Improves the Management of Cardiovascular and Neurodegenerative Disease Genes doi: 10.3390/genes11070747 Authors: Oriana Strianese Francesca Rizzo Michele Ciccarelli Gennaro Galasso Ylenia D’Agostino Annamaria Salvati Carmine Del Giudice Paola Tesorio Maria Rosaria Rusciano Life expectancy has gradually grown over the last century. This has deeply affected healthcare costs, since the growth of an aging population is correlated to the increasing burden of chronic diseases. This represents the interesting challenge of how to manage patients with chronic diseases in order to improve health care budgets. Effective primary prevention could represent a promising route. To this end, precision, together with personalized medicine, are useful instruments in order to investigate pathological processes before the appearance of clinical symptoms and to guide physicians to choose a targeted therapy to manage the patient. Cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases represent suitable models for taking full advantage of precision medicine technologies applied to all stages of disease development. The availability of high technology incorporating artificial intelligence and advancement progress made in the field of biomedical research have been substantial to understand how genes, epigenetic modifications, aging, nutrition, drugs, microbiome and other environmental factors can imp...
Source: Genes - Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Tags: Review Source Type: research