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Mercy offers Pharmacogenomic testing to help better understand your personalized metabolism of over 120 different medications, including behavior health, antihypertensive and pain medications The test shows how your body may respond to different medications, based on your genes. This helps your doctor select medications or alter doses of medications so that they will work better for you and with fewer side effects.
This test may be right for you if you:
Medications are not one-size-fits-all. Your genes play an important role in how your body interacts with different medications. In fact, more than 97% of patients who participated in this pharmacogenomics genetic test had results that influenced their treatment or suggested a need for non-standard medication dosing.
Research has shown that using a genetic test to inform depression treatment can be almost two times more effective than treatment without the test to achieve improvement in your symptoms. In addition, the Information you obtain will be applicable to both prescribing decisions made now and In the future - because your genes don't change, you will not need to repeat this test to continue to benefit from the analysis.
Precision medicine testing looks for genes, proteins, and other substances in the body and tailors treatments to those specific findings.