Personalized Medicine for Coronary Artery Disease: Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment
A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanisms of Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 17622
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Dear Colleagues,
We can define personalized medicine as diagnostic and screening methods to better manage an individual patient’s disease or their predisposition toward disease. A remarkable progression of genomic studies has been achieved in recent decades, from the characterization of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) double helix by Watson and Crick in 1953, to completing the Human Genome Project in 2003. The Human Genome Project and International HapMap Project provided a tremendous amount of information based on DNA.
Moreover, individualized medicine represents another stage in the development of personalized medicine. While personalized medicine is aimed at a specific group of patients, individualized medicine deals with the individual circumstances of a single person. Thus, individualized medicine goes one step further and can be considered an increase in the specificity of personalized medicine. Individualized medicine not only looks at genes but also focuses on the full range of a person's unique nature, including biological, physiological, and anatomical information.
As far as coronary artery disease is concerned, traditional risk factors fail to explain up to 50% of morbidity and mortality. Moreover, both the conventional and novel risk factors have a partial genetic origin. Many studies have shown that treatment algorithms supported by consensus guidelines may lead to a situation where a significant percentage of patients (such as patients with no Apo E genotype) are treated sub-optimally. Therefore, limiting disease management to the “one diet and standard drug therapy regimen fits all” approach is not the best option.
Recent studies suggest that the transformation of medicine in the 21st century can be called “P4 Medicine”, i.e., Predictive, Personalized, Preemptive, and Participatory. Moreover, the genome record might allow physicians to make treatment decisions based on patient genotypes. This might enable individuals to make appropriate lifestyle choices as well as to use proper drugs.
Personalized medicine is developing fast, and new data are emerging in huge amounts. This might enable the proper risk assessment, diagnosis, prevention, and therapy specifically tailored to the individual's unique characteristics, thus enhancing the quality of life and public health. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to present recent developments in personalized/individualized medicine and coronary artery disease.
We invite authors to submit original studies, reviews, meta-analyses, and case reports focused on the individualization of the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of coronary artery disease and its complications such as myocardial infarction or heart failure. We are soliciting not only genetic studies but all papers on the broadly understood personalized or individualized medicine, including manuscripts devoted to novel drugs, medical devices, or approaches dedicated to particular subsets of patients.
Dr. Jacek Bil
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- coronary artery disease
- CVD prevention
- pharmacogenetics
- targeted treatment
- gene-environment interaction
- residual cardiovascular risk
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