Newest, Most Accurate Screening Test to Predict Your Risk of Heart Attack
Cardiovascular disease can be effectively reduced when we are able to identify more accurately, through cardiovascular screening, those individuals that are at higher risk to develop this disease. This is possible using breakthrough imaging technology from Panasonic Healthcare. Instead of waiting for symptoms or relying on classical risk factors, the CardioHealth Station is capable of detecting the first signs of vascular damage using sophisticated ultrasound technology and its available at the Hansen Clinic.
Carotid Artery Intima Media Thickness (CIMT)
The Panasonic CardioHealth Station, combines traditional cardiovascular risk factors with rapid ultrasound imaging of the Carotid Artery wall thickness. This is known as CIMT ( carotid intima-media thickness) which is the safest, non-invasive early indicator of potential risk of cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular Disease is the number one killer of men and women in the United States. We invite you to take proactive steps to make sure you know and reduce your risks of Cardiovascular Disease years before they can do you harm. Please come to see us and bring your family and friends.
I feel like my patients are more like family than just patients. I am sincerely interested in helping you and your family stay well, prevent disease and achieve Totally Dynamic Optimal Health. Please take advantage of this non-invasive technology to assess your heart disease risk and find out your Bio-logical Age. The thicker your Carotid Artery the higher your risk of dying from Cardiovascular Disease, but the thinner your Carotid Artery lining, the lower your risk and your Bio-logical Age. Come find out just how old or young you really are inside your arteries and what you can do to reduce your Bio-logical Age.
You may be at higher risk than your traditional risk factors would lead you to believe.
Here is why:
Of 136,905 patients hospitalized with coronary artery disease (CAD), only 23% had high LDL levels (above 130 mg/dl). The other 77% had normal LDL levels (below 130 mg/dl) and would not have been identified as high-risk.*Traditional risk factors, like cholesterol and blood pressure are widely used predictors of future cardiovascular events. However there is little separation between the distributions of these risk factors in people who over a specified period do or do not experience an event.** Relying on cholesterol and other traditional risk factors can result in misclassification of risk. Direct visualization of sub clinical atherosclerosis can help you to better assess and manage Cardiovascular risk.(**Wald NJ, Law MR. BMJ. 2003; 326:1419-1423.)
Last March, while I was in Belgium, Brussels getting myAdvanced Certification in Anti-Aging Medicine, I saw this new technology for the first time. I have been looking for a way to measure Cardiovascular Risk more accurately and less invasively than is possible with conventional techniques. This is it.
I took the test myself and I am glad to report that I found that my Carotid Measurements equaled those of a 25 year old. Since I was 56 at the time, I was very happy to learn that my healthy diet, exercise and consistent supplementation of my nutritional formulas, including Peak Advantage High Potentcy Multi and GSE Ultra 110 Grape Seed Extract, had kept my arteries as clear of plaque as a typical 25 year old.
Everyone should take advantage of this non-invasive technology. Come in and get your arteries checked. Heart disease is the number one killer in America, for men and women. And, if we do find that you are at an increased risk for a heart attack, we can reverse the aging process of your arteries with intravenous chelation and oral supplements to reduce your risks.
- About 600,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year–that’s 1 in every 4 deaths.1
- Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. More than half of the deaths due to heart disease in 2009 were in men.1
- Coronary heart disease is the most common type of heart disease, killing more than 385,000 people annually.1
- Every year about 715,000 Americans have a heart attack. Of these, 525,000 are a first heart attack and 190,000 happen in people who have already had a heart attack.2
- Coronary heart disease alone costs the United States $108.9 billion each year.3 This total includes the cost of health care services, medications, and lost productivity.
References
- Kochanek KD, Xu JQ, Murphy SL, Miniño AM, Kung HC.Deaths: final data for 2009. [PDF-2M] National vital statistics reports. 2011;60(3).
- Go AS, et al. ; American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. Heart disease and stroke statistics—2013 update: a report from the American Heart Association.Circulation. 2013 Jan 1;127(1):e6-e245. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0b013e31828124ad. Epub 2012 Dec 12.http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/127/1/e6.long
- Heidenreich PA, Trogdon JG, Khavjou OA, et al. Forecasting the future of cardiovascular disease in the United States: a policy statement from the American Heart Association.Circulation. 2011;123:933-44. Epub 2011 Jan 24.
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