Monitor your health
THE year-end festive season is approaching and all of us are likely to indulge a bit more in our delectable multicultural cuisine. For those with diabetic and/ or other cardiovascular conditions or are at risk of such conditions, it is best to monitor your blood glucose more diligently or start to monitor it if you have not started doing so.
Unfortunately, a person’s cardiovascular health does not depend on blood glucose levels alone.
Metabolic syndrome is the name for a group of risk factors that raises our risk for heart disease and other health problems, such as diabetes and stroke. These risk factors include a large waistline (“apple” shape), high-blood pressure, high blood glucose levels and also cholesterol abnormalities.
Our rich cuisine certainly does not augur well where these risk factors are concerned. As such, the ubiquitous blood glucose and blood pressure meters may not be sufficient – more ground needs to be covered, especially in blood cholesterol monitoring.
While a standard laboratory test may be a good option, it may be inconvenient and expensive to do it frequently on a regular basis.
The AvoMeter range of meters launched in early 2010, is able to provide a fast, economical and convenient way to monitor one’s blood total cholesterol levels. The cholesterol monitoring function takes only 26 seconds and comes together with the blood glucose monitoring function.
The new AvoMeter range of meters comes with even better features:
– Auto-coding for glucose function (non-coding), results in five seconds.
– Glucose strips are stable for six months after the bottle is opened.
– Auto-strip recognition for cholesterol function, ie code once only with every new batch of strips.
There is also no need to code again when switching between glucose and cholesterol functions. – Strip ejector button. – Bi-directional memory scroll. The AvoMeter Vantage is being offered now at RM128 with free 10 glucose strips and two cholesterol strips while the AvoMeter Atlas is offered at RM85 with free 10 glucose strips.
As a token of appreciation, existing users of AvoMeter Perfect and AvoMeter GLU will also be upgraded to the new meters upon purchase of the new range of strips.
For details, look out for the advertisement in this StarSpecial.