CardioChek
Price: $99.95

• Portable Whole Blood Test System
• Single test capability for both Cholesterol Screening & Diabetes monitoring.
• Easy-to-use; Results in about a minute
• Accurate Results
• Internal result storage and review
• CLIA waived & OTC cleared

CardioChek PA Professional
Price: $668.47

• Easy-to-use with menu operation
• Both single and panel testing capability
• Lipid profile results
  (Total Cholesterol, HDL Cholesterol,Triglycerides - instrument software calculates an LDL Cholesterol result) - all from a single finger stick whole blood sample.
• Accurate Results
• Internal result storage and review
• CLIA waived for professional use

CardioChek PA Professional With Printer
PA Professional :$668.47 + Thermal Printer :$462.47 = Reg Price: $1130.94 Sale Price: $1024.85

Awarded Popular Science's Best of What's New 2006! - Personal Health category

CardioCheck PA optional thermal printer allows patient test results to be printed out. Measuring 7" long, 3.5" wide, 5.5" high, this handy printer uses very little space -- weighs only 3 pounds. The CardioChek Thermal Printer can print test results with the time and date of the test, or can print previous test results from memory. The printer is capable of printing on 500-count thermal labels or thermal paper rolls.

More than a glucose monitor, more than a cholesterol tester...

The CardioChek home health test kit may reduce your risk from the complications of diabetes and heart disease. Most important is good glycemic control through diet, exercise, blood monitoring and medication. The CardioChek glucose monitor and cholesterol tester is the first and only complete health management product that can perform multiple tests on one device. Color-coded strips and MEMo chips provide easy identification and correct calibration. As new tests become approved, the device is easily upgraded to include new test chemistries.

The CardioChek: 

1. Multiple blood chemistry testing.
2. One-step testing.
3. Average for previous ten tests, past fourteen and thirty day.
4. Storage of up to 250 glucose and 30 of each other test.
5. Automatic shut-off in two minutes from non-use of instrument.
6. Automatic calibration with inserted MEMo chip (included with each strip package).
7. Results in about one minute and future test upgradeable.

With the CardioChek and CardioChek PA you can reduce your risk from the complications of diabetes and heart disease. Most important is good glycemic control through diet, exercise, blood monitoring and medication. Ketone monitoring is also important to monitor for diabetic ketoacidosis from consistently high glucose levels and stressful events.

CardioChek is the first and only complete health management product that can perform multiple tests on one device. Color-coded strips and PTS Panels provide easy identification and correct calibration. As new tests become approved, the device is easily upgraded to include new test chemistries.

CardioChek and CardioChek PA Easy to Use ... Accurate Results...in 4 easy steps: 1. Insert MEMo Chip and turn on the instrument. 2. Insert test strip into instrument. 3. Apply blood sample using capillary blood collector. 4. Read results.

With the CardioChek instrument and the PTS PANELS Test Strips, you now have an entire health management system in the palm of your hand. The CardioChek is a hand-held medical diagnostics system that monitors key health indicators, including total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides, plus blood glucose and ketones - all in the comfort of your own home. The CardioChek blood testing device provides the tools for meeting cholesterol screening and diabetes management guidelines. Only PTS can provide this wide of a range of whole blood testing on a portable, easy to use system, with clinically accurate results.

The system includes a meter instrument as well as test strip. This easy-to-use blood test system displays the results of your blood test in about one minute, with accurate results every time. The CardioChek blood testing device features internal result storage for quick easy review. Unlike other systems that only test ONE specific health indicator - such as cholesterol or blood glucose, the CardioChek meter allows you to test a range of key health indicators. And, because of CardioChek's modular PTS PANELS technology, the device can never become obsolete; it is designed to run new tests as they are developed.

The CardioChek PA gives you additional professional features, such as the Lipid Panel, which allows one to perform several different blood tests simultaneously, with only one drop of blood.

PTS Panels Test Strip Measuring Range

Test all of these blood chemistries with just one instrument:

• Glucose
• Total Cholesterol
• HDL (good) Cholesterol
• Blood Ketone
• Triglycerides

The CardioChek PA medical diagnostic testing system can be classified as durable medical equipment (DME). Associated test strips can be classified as disposable medical equipment. In general, when CardioChek products are covered under major medical, they are considered DME. When covered under pharmacy benefits, they are considered as drugs or disposables.

Metabolic Chemistry Panel

Metabolic Syndrome Chemistry -- Brand New!

1. Estimated 47 million people with metabolic syndrome
2. One in six Americans are at risk

Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that occur together, increasing your risk for heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Having just one of these conditions — increased blood pressure, elevated insulin levels, excess body fat around the waist or abnormal cholesterol levels — contributes to your risk of serious disease. In combination, your risk is even greater.
Introducing the Metabolic Chemistry Panel.  This new test strip measures: HDL Cholesterol, Triglycerides and Glucose.

The American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute recommend that the metabolic syndrome be identified as the presence of three or more of these components:

• Elevated waist circumference:
  • Men — Equal to or greater than 40 inches (102 cm)
  • Women — Equal to or greater than 35 inches (88 cm)
• Elevated triglycerides:
  • Equal to or greater than 150 mg/dL
• Reduced HDL (“good”) cholesterol:
  • Men — Less than 40 mg/dL
  • Women — Less than 50 mg/dL
• Elevated blood pressure:
  • Equal to or greater than 130/85 mm Hg
• Elevated fasting glucose:
  • Equal to or greater than 100 mg/dL

DEVELOPMENT OF A METABOLIC SYNDROME PANEL TEST STRIP

The reason CardioChek decided to develop this product (Metabolic Syndrome Panel) was quite simple. They had a number of our customers asking: “Do you have a ‘Metabolic Syndrome Panel’ containing glucose, HDL cholesterol and triglycerides?” The most appropriate name was “Metabolic Syndrome Panel”.

There are a huge number of references for metabolic syndrome. Click here sampling of what CardioCheck found regarding Metabolic Syndrome.

Replacement Test Strips and Accessories Only (without the blood testing device)

Glucose Test Strips	25 ct Price: $19.95
Total Cholesterol Test Strips	3 ct. Price: $19.95 6 ct. Price: $21.95 25 ct. Price: $90.48
HDL Cholesterol Test Strips	3 ct.Price: $13.95 6 ct. Price: $21.95 25 ct.Price: $90.79
Blood Ketone Test Strips	6 ct. Price: $21.95 25 ct.Price: $92.96
Triglyceride Test Strips	3 ct. Price: $13.95 6 ct. Price: $21.95 25 ct.Price: $90.79
Pipettes/Blood Collectors	25 ct Price: $5.00
Lancets	100 ct Price: $40.00
HDL Control Solution	Price: $27.14
Multi Chemistry Control Solution	Price: $43

For use with CardioCheck PA Only:

LDL Cholesterol Test Strips	25 ct Price: $143.17
Combo Glucose-Cholesterol Test Strips	25 ct Price: $99.50
Metabolic Syndrome Panel, Measures HDL, Triglycerides & Glucose	15 ct Price: $114.69
Combo Cholesterol, HDL & Glucose Test Strips	15 ct Price: $139.05
Pipettes/Blood Collectors for Lipid Panel, HDL-Cholesterol and Glucose-Cholesterol strips, 40 mcl	16 ct Price: $139.05
Combo Cholesterol-HDL Test Strips (for use with CardioChek PA only -- requires 40 mcl pipettes)	25 ct $185.33
Lipid Panel	15 ct. $150.50
Thermal Printer Labels	500 ct. $22.66
Thermal Printer Paper	15 ct. $33.99

PLEASE NOTE: Open, Used or Expired test strips are not returnable. If item is found to be defective by the manufacturer, the item may be exchanged or returned for a refund.

Risk Factor

Defining Level

Abdominal obesity*
 Men
 Women

Waist circumference**
 >102 cm (>40 in)
 >88 cm (>35 in)

Triglycerides

150 mg/dL

HDL cholesterol
 Men
 Women

<40 mg/dl
<50 mg/dl

blood pressure

130/85 mmHg

Fasting glucose

110 mg/dL

For many years, physicians have recognized that elevated blood glucose levels, high blood pressure, obesity, and abnormal blood lipid levels tend to occur together in certain individuals. This cluster of symptoms—previously called “The Deadly Quartet,” syndrome X, or insulin resistance syndrome—is now commonly referred to as metabolic syndrome. Almost one in four American adults has metabolic syndrome, which increases the risk of diabetes, coronary heart disease, and stroke.
How Common Is Metabolic Syndrome?
In 2001, the National Cholesterol Education Program (sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) proposed the following criteria for the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome. A person needs to have at least three of the following five factors to be diagnosed with the condition:

1. abdominal obesity (a waist circumference greater than 40 inches in men or 35 inches in women)
2. triglyceride levels of 150 mg/dL or greater
3. high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels of less than 40 mg/dL in men or 50 mg/dL in women
4. blood pressures of 130/85 mm Hg or higher, or taking antihypertensive medication
5. fasting blood glucose levels of 110 mg/dL or greater

While only 7% of men and women age 20 to 29 meet this definition of metabolic syndrome, the percentage rises to more than 40% of those age 60 and older. Metabolic syndrome is more common in Mexican Americans (32%) than in whites (24%) or blacks (22%).