Precision Medicine and Obesity

The highly variable response to obesity therapies justifies the search for treatment strategies that are best suited to individual patients to enhance their effectiveness and tolerability via precision medicine. Precision medicine development in recent years has been driven by the emergence of power...

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Published inGastroenterology clinics of North America Vol. 50; no. 1; p. 127
Main Authors Hurtado A, Maria Daniela, Acosta, Andres
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.03.2021
Subjects
Humans
Nutrigenomics
Obesity - therapy
Precision Medicine
Personalized nutrition
Obesity
Nutrigenomics
Phenotype
Precision medicine
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Summary:The highly variable response to obesity therapies justifies the search for treatment strategies that are best suited to individual patients to enhance their effectiveness and tolerability via precision medicine. Precision medicine development in recent years has been driven by the emergence of powerful methods to characterize patients ("omic" assays). Current available information has revealed that there are numerous intermediary processes that contribute to obesity and have provided a framework for partially comprehending the mechanisms behind the heterogeneity of obesity and its clinical consequences. Some of these processes have or are currently being targeted to individualize obesity therapy with some success.
ISSN:1558-1942
DOI:10.1016/j.gtc.2020.10.005