Heart Wellness Package
Understanding Heart Wellness Package
What is Heart Wellness Package?
Heart Wellness Package comprises a series of blood tests to assess the functioning of your heart. This package offers a troponin-I high-sensitive test, lipid profile, and glucose fasting test, allowing doctors to analyze your overall heart health. These tests are conducted to identify preventable risk factors for heart disease, avoid episodes of heart attack, or if you have a history of heart ailments. This package is also used for regularly monitoring pre-existing heart problems if you have other risk factors such as diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, old age, or a family history of heart disease. It enables doctors to suggest lifestyle modifications or prescribe medications to manage your heart conditions and develop an effective treatment plan.
What does Heart Wellness Package measure?
Contains 10 tests.
High Sensitive Troponin-I, Quantitative
A High Sensitive Troponin-I, Quantitative test measures the concentration of Troponin-I in the bloodstream. It is a cardiac-specific protein released into the bloodstream when there is damage or injury to the heart muscles. Elevated levels of highly sensitive Troponin-I serve as a sensitive indicator of cardiac events, such as Myocardial infarction (heart attack) or other acute coronary syndrome. This test helps doctors determine whether a patient has experienced a heart attack.
Troponin levels typically rise sharply within 3 to 12 hours after a heart attack, peaking about 24 hours later. Doctors often repeat this test several times over a 24-hour period to assess the extent of heart damage.
High Sensitive Troponin-I, Quantitative test helps doctors assess and monitor cardiac health, enabling early detection and timely intervention in case of a cardiac injury.
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FBS (Fasting Blood Sugar)
A fasting blood sugar test measures the glucose level in the body under overnight fasting conditions. Glucose serves as the body's energy currency and is broken down through metabolism to produce energy. Hormones and enzymes produced by the liver and pancreas control this process. The hormone insulin, produced by the pancreas, regulates blood glucose levels. When these levels are high, such as after a meal, insulin is secreted to transport glucose into cells for energy production. Elevated glucose levels in the body after fasting may indicate a risk of developing prediabetes or diabetes, which can be of two types- Type 1, caused by little or no insulin production, and Type 2, caused by insulin resistance or decreased insulin production.
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Lipid Profile
A Lipid Profile assesses the level of specific fat molecules called lipids in the blood and helps determine the risk of heart ailments. This test determines the amount of different types of lipids, including total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and triglycerides. Lipids play a pivotal role in the functioning of the body. They are crucial components of the cell membranes and hormones, provide cushioning, and are a storehouse of energy. Any alterations in the lipid levels may lead to potential heart ailments, making their monitoring crucial.
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This further contains
- Cholesterol - LDL
- Triglycerides
- Cholesterol - Total
- Cholesterol - HDL
- Very Low Density Lipoprotein
- Total Cholesterol/HDL Cholesterol Ratio
- LDL/HDL Ratio
- Non HDL Cholesterol