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Alvar Agusti1, Elisabeth Bel2, Mike Thomas3
1Respiratory Institute, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Barcelona and CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Spain Alvar.Agusti@clinic.ub.es.
Abstract:
Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are two prevalent chronic airway diseases that have a high personal and social impact. They likely represent a continuum of different diseases that may share biological mechanisms (i.e. endotypes), and present similar clinical, functional, imaging and/or biological features that can be observed (i.e. phenotypes) which require individualised treatment. Precision medicine is defined as "treatments targeted to the needs of individual patients on the basis of genetic, biomarker, phenotypic, or psychosocial characteristics that distinguish a given patient from other patients with similar clinical presentations". In this Perspective, we propose a precision medicine strategy for chronic airway diseases in general, and asthma and COPD in particular.
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