An integrated Diet Monitoring Solution for nutrigenomic research

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015:210:632-6.

Abstract

The emergence of evidence pointing at diet as key risk factor for chronic diseases and at gene-diet interactions as key elements in the interplay between an individual genetic background and his/her lifestyle, pave the way for studies in nutrigenomics. Such studies need an integrated solution to collect, monitor and analyse a large set of data. In the frame of ATHENA, a European Commission FP7 project, we developed an integrated platform, called Dietary Monitoring Solution enabling the collection of phenotypic, genetic and lifestyle information, linked to a mHealth application tool. The data collection solution allows maintaining anonymized information and supports a number of features making it particularly suited for multicentre studies. The mHealth application was designed to translate the knowledge generated from research into a personalised prevention programme and to support the patient adherence to the programme.

MeSH terms

  • Biomedical Research / methods*
  • Clinical Trials Data Monitoring Committees
  • Diet / methods
  • Diet / statistics & numerical data*
  • Diet Records*
  • Diet Therapy / methods*
  • Electronic Health Records / organization & administration
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods
  • Mobile Applications
  • Nutrigenomics / methods*
  • Self Care / methods
  • Systems Integration
  • Telemedicine / methods*
  • User-Computer Interface