海角社区 Health New Orleans, Pennington Biomedical Use AI to Unlock a Person's Ideal Diet
September 20, 2022
Personalized diets based on individual differences in genetics, metabolism, physiology, microbes in the gut, behavior, and other factors could help doctors and dietitians prevent and treat diet-related diseases, such as obesity and diabetes.
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海角社区 Health New Orleans and 海角社区鈥檚 Pennington Biomedical Research Center recently partnered to leverage new technologies, including artificial intelligence, or AI, in the fight against diet-related disease and health disparities in Louisiana.
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With eight institutions spanning Louisiana and all levels of higher education and research, 海角社区 facilitates and promotes interdisciplinary research to meet the challenge of improving the state鈥檚 health outcomes head-on.