Precision medicine for managing diabetes

Abstract

Precision medicine is a modern concept that has been used since 2011 to describe tailored accurate medical treatments selected according to individual characteristics of each patient. Each patient's disease is analyzed according to molecular data, genomics, and systems biology in this model to establish the patient's disease process at the molecular level and select appropriate treatments. The patient's response is then closely monitored with direct or surrogate measures such as biomarkers, and the treatments can then be adapted according to the patient's response. The combination of traditional gross and microscopic metrics combined with molecular profiling is precision medicine.