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The future of individualized health maintenance

Multi-omics longitudinal profiling of individuals can detect subtle changes in health status at the earliest possible time point, allowing preemptive initiation of mechanism-appropriate disease-prevention strategies.

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S.R.S. is supported by the National Institutes of Health grants UL1TR001114 and U24OD023176 and a grant from the Qualcomm Foundation.

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Steinhubl, S.R. The future of individualized health maintenance. Nat Med 25, 712–714 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-019-0443-1

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