Introduction to preventive and predictive medicine: past experience and future reality

Abstract

The active practical introduction of the achievements of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and bioinformatics brought about a fundamental change in views on the role and place of medicine in the structure of healthcare at the turn of the 1980s-1990s, by giving impetus to the development of the radically new health care area - preventive, predictive, and personalized medicine (PPPM). The main goals of PPM are to recognize disease signs at the stage of subclinical pathology with d the identification of targets suitable for drug-based prevention for drug-based prevention and to make pharmacorrection of the disturbances identified aimed at the drug-based prevention to promote the suppression of pathological process at the subclinical stage.

Keywords

• genomics
• proteomics
• bioinformatics
• metabolomics
• bioprediction
• bioprevention