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Digital Resilience Biomarkers for Personalized Health Maintenance and Disease Prevention
Willem van den Brink1, Robbert Bloem2, Adithya Ananth3
1Department of Microbiology and Systems Biology, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Zeist, Netherlands.
Frontiers in Digital Health
|October 29, 2021
Summary
Digital resilience biomarkers empower individuals by measuring subtle health changes through continuous, non-invasive digital physiological and molecular monitoring. These biomarkers offer personalized feedback for proactive health maintenance and disease prevention.
Area of Science:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Digital Health
- Preventive Medicine
Background:
- Rising burden of chronic diseases necessitates advanced health maintenance and disease prevention strategies.
- Individual empowerment through self-measurement is crucial for effective health control.
- Digital measurements offer non-invasive, continuous, and real-world data collection advantages.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the integration of resilience biomarkers with digital physiological measurements.
- To investigate the potential of digital resilience biomarkers for detecting subtle health disbalances and intervention effects.
- To discuss the role of wearable, non-invasive molecular biomarkers in future digital resilience assessment.
Main Methods:
- Review of the concept of resilience biomarkers and their dynamic evaluation of biological responses.
- Exploration of integrating resilience concepts with digital physiological measurements.
- Discussion on the potential of wearable, continuous, non-invasive molecular biomarker measurements.
Main Results:
- Resilience biomarkers offer a viable strategy for measuring subtle biological responses to challenges.
- Digital resilience biomarkers can potentially detect subtle disbalances and effects of interventions (e.g., nutritional improvements).
- Wearable molecular biomarkers may enhance insights into personal biological dynamics.
Conclusions:
- Digital resilience biomarkers hold promise for measuring subtle effects of health strategies in real-world contexts.
- These biomarkers can provide personalized feedback to improve individual health outcomes.
- Integration of digital physiological and molecular measurements can advance personalized preventive healthcare.
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