Personalized Medicine in Primary Care

A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Methodology, Drug and Device Discovery".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2021) | Viewed by 2541

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Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Interests: precision medicine; clinical care; genomics; genome sequencing

Special Issue Information

Dear colleagues,

As precision medicine interventions continue to gain evidence, there is increasing interest in how to best integrate these into clinical care. While some precision medicine interventions are specialty-specific, the identification of risk and development of risk mitigation strategies are foundational elements of primary care. Precision medicine interventions span digital health, family health history, pharmacogenomics, and beyond. In this issue, we are seeking manuscripts spanning development to clinical effectiveness and utility studies, as well as qualitative studies evaluating the psychosocial aspects of precision medicine in primary care from a patient and provider perspective.

Dr. R. Ryanne Wu 
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • precision medicine
  • primary care
  • risk assessment
  • pharmacogenomics
  • implementation
  • digital health
  • genome sequencing

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Effects of Two Community-Based Exercise Programs on Adherence, Cardiometabolic Markers, and Body Composition in Older People with Cardiovascular Risk Factors: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study
by Esther García-Sánchez, Jacobo Á. Rubio-Arias, Vicente Ávila-Gandía, F. Javier López-Román and Juan F. Menarguez-Puche
J. Pers. Med. 2020, 10(4), 176; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm10040176 - 16 Oct 2020
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Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death globally, and cardiovascular risk factors (CRFs) are major behavioral risk factors. Therefore, community-based programs are being designed based on the prescription of physical exercise from primary care centers to improve people’s health through [...] Read more.
Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death globally, and cardiovascular risk factors (CRFs) are major behavioral risk factors. Therefore, community-based programs are being designed based on the prescription of physical exercise from primary care centers to improve people’s health through changes in lifestyle. The objective was to compare the effects of two types of community exercise on adherence, lipid profile, body composition and blood pressure. A prospective observational cohort study was designed with two cohorts of study depending on the duration and type of physical exercise program performed. Fifty-one participants (82.4% women) with CRF completed the observation period in which they carried out a short-term, non-individualized exercise program (3 months), and 42 participants (71.4% women) with CRF completed the observation period in which they conducted a long-term, individualized exercise program (6 months). The results suggest that participants who carried out the longer program with an individualized progression produced greater adherence to physical exercise and a decrease in diastolic blood pressure. In addition, LDL and insulin levels decreased in both groups. Therefore, our results suggest that a longer duration and individualized evolution of the loads of a community exercise program lead to higher levels of physical activity (PA) and improvements diastolic blood pressure. Full article
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