title: An integrated Diet Monitoring Solution for nutrigenomic research.
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.
authors.affiliation: Kos Genetic srl, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Costanza
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Conti
authors.affiliation: Kos Genetic srl, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rossi
authors.affiliation: eHealthLAB, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marceglia
authors.affiliation: eHealthLAB, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Vittorio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Tauro
authors.affiliation: Kos Genetic srl, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Federica
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rizzi
authors.affiliation: Clinical Pathology, C. Besta Neurological Institute, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lazzaroni
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Barlassina
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Soldati
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cusi
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D026661:Clinical Trials Data Monitoring Committees; D004032:Diet / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015930:Diet Records; D004035:Diet Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D063731:Mobile Applications; D054647:Nutrigenomics / Q000379:methods*; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods; D018511:Systems Integration; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface