Personalized Cardiovascular Disease Prediction and Treatment—A Review of Existing Strategies and Novel Systems Medicine Tools

• Published in: Frontiers in physiology Vol. 7; no. JAN; p. 2
• Main Authors: Björnson, Elias, Borén, Jan, Mardinoglu, Adil
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 2016
• Subjects: Metabolism; Network medicine; patient stratification; Physiology; Risk estimation; Systems Biology; Systems Medicine; systems biology; network medicine; systems medicine; metabolism; patient stratification; risk estimation

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to constitute the leading cause of death globally. CVD risk stratification is an essential tool to sort through heterogeneous populations and identify individuals at risk of developing CVD. However, applications of current risk scores have recently been shown t...