Treatable traits: toward precision medicine of chronic airway diseases

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…

• FC
  Fundació Catalana de Pneumologia
• NI
  National Institute for Health and Care Research
• IN
  Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
• UP
  Université Paris-Sud
• SE
  Sociedad Española de Neumología y Cirugía Torácica

  Awards: PI065/2013, PI192/2012, PI065/2013
• ID
  Instituto de Salud Carlos III

  Award: PI12/01117