What’s your vascular age?

CardioCheck is a remarkable new weapon in the fight against cardiovascular disease (CVD)

A revolution in heart health has taking place, now in just 3 minutes a simple test can warn you of your risk of suffering a major cardiovascular event such as a heart attack or a stroke. This test is called CardioCheck and it is able to measure the elasticity of your main arteries - a key factor in the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD).

The issues with poor arterial condition leading to heart problems was recognised as early as the 17th century, when physician Thomas Sydenham stated; “A man is as old as his artery.”

Clinical trials conducted at a leading London hospital have highlighted CardioCheck’s effectiveness at testing endothelial dysfunction and large artery stiffness, two significant risk factors in the prediction of serious cardiovascular events. The results from a CardioCheck test can also be incredibly useful and include:

Assessing your heart health.

Monitoring the progression of vascular disease.

Monitoring the effectiveness of any supplement or medicinal regime.

Monitoring the effectiveness of lifestyle and diet changes.

How CardioCheck works

CardioCheck is a painless, non invasive procedure. An infrared sensor is simply clipped to the patient’s finger and infrared light is passed through it. CardioCheck automatically scans, collects and analyses the data from the sensor and from the amassed information can determine the stiffness of a patient’s artery. It is able to do this by ascertaining the patients BMI (obtained by placing data such as patient’s height, sex, race, weight and age into the machine beforehand) as well as their heart rate, blood speed (hence viscosity) and finally the arterial stiffness index.

Furthermore, CardioCheck holds 2000 patients data obtained by previous examinations. So once the patient’s data is obtained and displayed, CardioCheck will ascertain the age of patient’s arteries, in other words even if you are not a medical professional CardioCheck produces a vascular age - thus very simply that figure can be compared to your own age, to see how you compare to your counterparts. You may only be 40 but if your arterial health is that of an average 70 year old due to premature or arterial stiffness then you can take action to improve the situation and avoid a catastrophe.

CardioCheck can diagnose previously undiagnosed cardiovascular problems, this is important because arterial stiffness can go undetected for years, it is often only discovered when it is too late.

The cholesterol dilemma

Cardiovascular disease has become one of the major causes of premature death in the Western world today - millions of apparently healthy people are not aware that they are at risk.

Cholesterol is frequently sited as a key risk factor, but studies such as the Framingham study have shown that up to 80% of patients with CVD have the same blood cholesterol levels as people without heart disease. These and results like it present problems when cholesterol levels alone are used to single out people who are at risk. After all cholesterol is present in all of our blood streams, so why do only some people develop CVD?

One answer may lie with recent developments. Medical professionals have discovered that cholesterol doesn’t stick to healthy artery walls, instead cholesterol is used to repair weakened areas of diseased or inflamed arteries. This places particular importance on identifying CVD early before plaque builds up on the artery lining. Plaque is a combination of cholesterol, heavy metals and calcium (amongst other substances), which can ultimately lead to a major cardiovascular event such as a heart attack or stroke.

Current routine tests such as blood pressure and cholesterol levels only indicate potential risk, however CardioCheck provides dependable evidence of actual arterial damage.

Arterial condition

With the failure of common tests such as blood cholesterol tests to detect the presence of CVD absolutely, CardioCheck represents an accurate, non invasive tool for establishing your arterial health.

CardioCheck also offers you the chance to monitor how effective steps such as diet change or your supplement regimes are being in remedying your problem. [Note - IAS is undertaking a number of supplement tests in different age groups using CardioCheck as a measure of effectiveness, not only can we than stand by and support our products and their results, but we are also designing a multi-supplement that can be a cost effective and simple approach for the majority of people to improve their arterial condition, as witnessed by the before and after tests undertaken with CardioCheck]. For further details please see Cardio-Pro.

Also because CardioCheck is a portable stand alone system your health practitioner can perform regular re-tests without you having to travel to a hospital. Indeed a unit within a clinic, gymnasium, company or even family home can not only test everyone in it, but can be used time and time again to ensure that everyone is maintaining the best possible arterial condition that they can.

We believe that CardioCheck will make a substantial contribution to testing arterial health and in the coming years save many lives. Early detection and management of CVD could dramatically cut the cases of one of the major causes of premature death.

Click here for the approximate stiffness index outputs as they relate to arterial health.

The CardioCheck System

CardioCheck is a CE marked, fully portable unit in a shock resistant travel case which also contains a CD Rom of analysis software. The unit contains a visual display that can guide you easily through the test and the results can be viewed, stored and saved onto the machine and they may also be printed off on the inbuilt printer.

The software included with CardioCheck is PC compatible and allows you to store, print and compare your results onto your own computer (all PC compatible up to and including all XP versions).

CardioCheck comes with a training manual and DVD and has a 13-month return to base warranty.

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What our customers say...

When we test our customers at shows and events we attend, we always get a queue around the block with CardioCheck! People want to know what their biological age and vascular health is, they understand that blood and heart problems can kill and that heart health is the number 1 risk factor that needs to be overcome CardioCheck is therefore a breakthrough in the way and ease in which a person can know about their heart health and perhaps even more importantly to find products and protocols that can improve their individual condition

Phil Hawes, England

CardioCheck is a most exciting development of the greatest interest and significance

Graham Simpson, M.D., Arizona