Personalised Medicine Flashcards

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What the main aim of Personalised medicine ?

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predict better -

diagnose earlier -

treat more efficiently

  • provide care for the individual person, based on individual data, not probalistic care
  • Personalised medicine aims to tailor specific treatments to individuals and improve especially early diagnosis.
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Cholesterol ? Current Problems

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For cholesterol, threshold frequencies are 200 and 250 mg/dl. Why? Because we have population data .

While the diagnosis is to some degree at least personalised, the treatment is not.

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Heart Failure

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the use of β-blockers was not associated with a lower risk of composite cardiovascular events.”

15-25%

The approval process test efficacy and safety, result evaluation compares groups

  1. Discovery which takes about 2-10 years
  2. Pre-clinical testing takes about 3-6 years
  3. Clinical Testing
  4. Government
  5. Production

All this helps test effeiaty and effectiveness in a treatment

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