Recently I had the opportunity to attend the LD Technology Symposium and see where ANS testing is at. This is an exciting area with technology driving ease of testing and insights into Insulin Resistance and prediabetes.

The LD equipment is empowering early detection of diabetes as much as 10 years before diagnosis through glucose tolerance testing.

The device measures 3 key areas to determine an overall cardiometabolic score. These 3 areas include lifestyle, the vascular score, and autonomic score.

The equipment uses a variety of technologies combined with specific algorithms that determine the cardiometabolic risk (CMR) score with 92% accuracy and a specificity of 83%. The testing is cost-effective and can mitigate the need for a variety of lab and other invasive testing for early stage assessment.

Lifestyle plays a big role in cardiometabolic disease and studies cited at the Symposium have indicated that as much as 58% improvement in CMR can be made with sustained lifestyle improvements.

The information from this simple 7-minute test, gives physicians at a primary care level, a wealth of knowledge associated with patient health and wellbeing. Factors assessed include microcirculation, arterial stiffness, BMI, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system power and balance, fitness level and recovery, stress, exercise tolerance and body fat to name a few.

Listening to the expert physicians speak, ANS testing is providing a gold standard for patients to be tested for insulin resistance and gives physicians a clear window into the patient state of glucose metabolism and the broad array of chronic conditions that fall out from this chronic and debilitating condition.

Treatment and testing for the various stages of dysfunction for peripheral neuropathy, autonomic neuropathy, and peripheral arterial disease were shared. Early diagnosis and intervention are key to improving these patients lives.

Obesity is further driving the need for early intervention and ANS testing provides physicians an easy tool to quickly ‘see’ into the health and well being of any adult patient.

Exciting new products are also on the way including a health kiosk that is set to replace the triage nurse with a fully automated Life Probe that assesses patient BP, Heart rate, BMI, vascular aging, body composition, temperature, weight, height and more.

Vivien Hudson