Implementing Personalized Medicine in COVID-19 in Andalusia : An Opportunity to Transform the Healthcare System

The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented opportunity to exploit the advantages of personalized medicine for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, surveillance and management of a new challenge in public health. COVID-19 infection is highly variable, ranging from asymptomatic infections to severe, life-threatening manifestations. Personalized medicine can play a key role in elucidating individual susceptibility to the infection as well as inter-individual variability in clinical course, prognosis and response to treatment. Integrating personalized medicine into clinical practice can also transform health care by enabling the design of preventive and therapeutic strategies tailored to individual profiles, improving the detection of outbreaks or defining transmission patterns at an increasingly local level. SARS-CoV2 genome sequencing, together with the assessment of specific patient genetic variants, will support clinical decision-makers and ultimately better ways to fight this disease. Additionally, it would facilitate a better stratification and selection of patients for clinical trials, thus increasing the likelihood of obtaining positive results. Lastly, defining a national strategy to implement in clinical practice all available tools of personalized medicine in COVID-19 could be challenging but linked to a positive transformation of the health care system. In this review, we provide an update of the achievements, promises, and challenges of personalized medicine in the fight against COVID-19 from susceptibility to natural history and response to therapy, as well as from surveillance to control measures and vaccination. We also discuss strategies to facilitate the adoption of this new paradigm for medical and public health measures during and after the pandemic in health care systems.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Journal of personalized medicine - 11(2021), 6 vom: 26. Mai

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dopazo, Joaquín [VerfasserIn]
Maya-Miles, Douglas [VerfasserIn]
García, Federico [VerfasserIn]
Lorusso, Nicola [VerfasserIn]
Calleja, Miguel Ángel [VerfasserIn]
Pareja, María Jesús [VerfasserIn]
López-Miranda, José [VerfasserIn]
Rodríguez-Baño, Jesús [VerfasserIn]
Padillo, Javier [VerfasserIn]
Túnez, Isaac [VerfasserIn]
Romero-Gómez, Manuel [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Covid-19
Epidemiology
Host genetics
Journal Article
Personalized medicine
Precision medicine
Review
SARS CoV2
Viral genome

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Date Revised 07.11.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/jpm11060475

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM326219889