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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Halpin, David M.G.

Titel

Precision medicine in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Ist Teil von

• Chinese medical journal, 2022-05, Vol.135 (10), p.1156-1162

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract Over the last 20 years, it has become possible to use a precision medicine approach to the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Clinical and physiological features as well as a blood biomarker can be used to target treatments to patients most likely to benefit and avoid treatment in patients less likely to benefit. Future advances in a precision medicine approach to COPD will depend on more precise characterization of individual patients, possibly using quantitative imaging, new physiological techniques, novel biomarkers and genetic profiling. Precision medicine has led to significant improvements in the management of COPD and clinicians should use all available information to optimize the treatment of individual patients.