Bio Clip - A simple and rapid assessment of your vascular func

Are your arteries the same age as you or is your bio-vascular age different to your actual age? Knowing the answer to this question could just save your life!

It’s a sobering thought but, according to the World Health Organisation, of the 57 million or so deaths that occurred globally in 2002, nearly 30% of deaths were due to cardiovascular diseases. And as populations grow and continue to age, even more people are likely to succumb to this killer. And these figures don’t, of course, include those people actually living with cardiovascular diseases. According to the American Heart Association estimates for the year 2006 are that in the United States alone 81,100,000 people had one or more forms of cardiovascular disease.

It’s a huge problem and in so many cases a silent one, only surfacing when considerable damage has already been done. Indeed, for many the first time that they know that they have a problem is when they actually suffer from a heart attack - and for some that might just prove fatal. Even without the effects of disease, your cardio vascular health will slowly but surely deteriorate as your arteries gradually stiffen and become less elastic with age, and as your arteries stiffen so the load on your heart increases, thus raising the risk of a heart attack.

Wouldn’t it be amazing then if you could actually take a snapshot look at your arteries without undergoing invasive testing, assess the “age” of your arteries and then, armed with this vital information, take the appropriate steps to keep your heart and arteries as happy and healthy as possible for as long as possible.

Bio-Clip enables you to do just that, providing you with a rapid assessment of your vascular function and structure and by interpreting the results, especially the measurement of arterial stiffness, Bio Clip can provide you with a comparative biological age of your cardio-vascular system (your bio-vascular age as opposed to your chronological age). You will be able to answer the question - Are your arteries the same age as you or are they same age as those of an older (or younger) person?

Bio Clip simply uses a finger clip (similar to a pulse oximeter) and by using infrared technology to measure your pulse waves, the Bio Clip system assesses:

• Your heart rate
• Your Stiffness Index (a measure of your large artery stiffness)
• Your Reflection Index (a measure of your vascular tone of your small arteries)
• Your blood oxygenation levels

It’s quick - the reading only takes between 10-30 seconds to perform. It’s non-invasive and painless. And it’s easy to use - Bio Clip doesn’t require specialist training. The information from your reading is automatically downloaded into the specialist Bio Clip software that resides on your own computer. This information is then processed by the Bio Clip system which produces your results in an easy to read and easy to understand format.

If a man is only as old his arteries - then using Bio Clip is one test that you really shouldn’t be without.