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Personalized vascular medicine: Individualizing drug therapy.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  22003003     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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Personalized medicine refers to the application of an individual's biological fingerprint - the comprehensive dataset of unique biological information - to optimize medical care. While the principle itself is straightforward, its implementation remains challenging. Advances in pharmacogenomics as well as functional assays of vascular biology now permit improved characterization of an individual's response to medical therapy for vascular disease. This review describes novel strategies designed to permit tailoring of four major pharmacotherapeutic drug classes within vascular medicine: antiplatelet therapy, antihypertensive therapy, lipid-lowering therapy, and antithrombotic therapy. Translation to routine clinical practice awaits the results of ongoing randomized clinical trials comparing personalized approaches with standard of care management.
Authors:
Emil M Degoma; Giovanni Rivera; Scott M Lilly; M Haris U Usman; Emile R Mohler
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Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Vascular medicine (London, England)     Volume:  16     ISSN:  1477-0377     ISO Abbreviation:  Vasc Med     Publication Date:  2011 Oct 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-10-17     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9610930     Medline TA:  Vasc Med     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  391-404     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
1Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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