Clinical phenotyping is currently used to guide
pharmacological treatment decisions in chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD), a personalized approach to care. Precision medicine
integrates biological (endotype) and clinical (phenotype) information
for a more individualized approach to pharmacotherapy, to maximize the
benefit versus risk ratio. Biomarkers can be used to identify endotypes.
To evolve toward precision medicine in COPD, the most appropriate
biomarkers and clinical characteristics that reliably predict treatment
responses need to be identified.
FEV1 is a marker of COPD
severity and has historically been used to guide pharmacotherapy
choices. However, we now understand that the trajectory of FEV1 change, as an indicator of disease activity, is more important than a single FEV1
measurement. There is a need to develop biomarkers of disease activity
to enable a more targeted and individualized approach to
pharmacotherapy. Recent clinical trials testing commonly used COPD
treatments have provided new information that is likely to influence
pharmacological treatment decisions both at initial presentation and at
follow up. In this Perspective, we consider the impact of recent
clinical trials on current COPD treatment recommendations. We also focus
on the movement toward precision medicine and propose how this field
needs to evolve in terms of using clinical characteristics and
biomarkers to identify the most appropriate patients for a given
pharmacological treatment.
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