CHICAGO, Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Panasonic announced today
that the company will showcase its new innovative tool for
personalized preventive medicine, the CardioHealth® Station, at
booth number 1831 at the 2010 American Heart Association Scientific
Sessions to be held in Chicago from November 14 – November
17. The CardioHealth® Station, Panasonic’s flagship healthcare
product, will be on display and demonstrated on the show floor. The
CardioHealth® Station is designed to assist medical
professionals in making a quick and valuable assessment of
cardiovascular health and is expected to launch in North America
pending FDA action.
The CardioHealth® Station has a built-in portable ultrasound
system optimized to perform a non-invasive examination of the
carotid arteries. It provides an automated real-time measurement of
the intima-media thickness (IMT) and allows the user to search for
arterial plaques. Moreover, the touch-screen keyboard allows the
user to input various parameters related to traditional
cardiovascular risk factors. A built in calculator provides risk
scores commonly used in a variety of medical environments
(Framingham Risk Score, PROCAM Health Check Score, Reynolds Risk
Score, Risk score based on the SCORE Project). This information is
supplemented with an IMT measurement of the artery to generate a
comprehensive report to aid the physician in assessing
cardiovascular risk.
Recently published studies sponsored by the US National
Institute of Health (ARIC and MESA)*(1) have shown that there is
valuable information revealed in the assessment of vascular health,
and the risks of a cardiovascular event associated with those
assessments. The ARIC*(2) study, a 15-year multi-institution study,
revealed that certain patients can be reclassified from “Low or
Intermediate Risk” to “High Risk” by looking at the carotid-intima
media thickness and the presence of plaque in the patient.
Panasonic developed CardioHealt
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