4 hours for screening tests and a one-hour for awareness session to emphasize the importance of vital organ care and routine health check-up.
1. Biosample tests (urine and blood analysis) for identifying biomarkers for early-stage kidney disease
2. Measurement of vascular stiffness indices from the carotid artery
age: 51 ± 12.5 years; 56 males
In which, 48% of the subjects were normal weight, 5% were under-weight, 38% were overweight, and 9% obese subjects.
27% of the subjects had increased blood pres-sure, and 59% were diagnosed with elevated fasting blood sugar.
Nearly 50% of them were masked or untreated hypertensive and/or diabetes patients.
1. Two units of ARTSENS Pen performed 85 individual measurements and three repeat attempts within 4 hours.
2. The average time taken per subject to complete the entire protocol, including anthropometric measurements, BP monitoring, data entry, and stiffness evaluation, was less than five minutes (range: 2.5 – 5 minutes).
3. The device provided a reliable measure of β (8.93 ± 3.73), EP (125.09 ± 60.32 kPa), diastolic PWV (6.60 ± 1.58 m/s), and systolic PWV (8.13 ± 2.11 m/s).
4. Among these, β and EP exhibited a more evident age-associated increase (R2 ≈ 0.97).
5. All the measured stiffness indices were significantly higher in female subjects, depicting gender differences in the time course of aging-related vascular stiffness.
6. Both PWVs strongly associated with the clustering of multiple biochemical risk factors (R2 > 0.99), followed by EP and β (R2 > 0.97).