• Eur. Respir. J. · Feb 2016

    Treatable traits: toward precision medicine of chronic airway diseases.

    • Alvar Agusti, Elisabeth Bel, Mike Thomas, Claus Vogelmeier, Guy Brusselle, Stephen Holgate, Marc Humbert, Paul Jones, Peter G Gibson, Jørgen Vestbo, Richard Beasley, and Ian D Pavord.
    • Respiratory Institute, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Barcelona and CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Spain Alvar.Agusti@clinic.ub.es.
    • Eur. Respir. J. 2016 Feb 1; 47 (2): 410-9.

    AbstractAsthma 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. Copyright ©ERS 2016.

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