[Introduction to preventive and predictive medicine: past experience and future reality].

The active practical introduction of the achievements of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and bioinformatics brought about a fundamental change in views on the role and place of medicine in the structure of healthcare at the turn of the 1980s-1990s, by giving impetus to the development of the radically new health care area--preventive, predictive, and personalized medicine (PPPM).