In French population-based cohort study involving 6,626 individuals, an increased number of optimal cardiovascular health metrics were significantly associated with lower risk of incident dementia.  The metrics are defined by AHA, the American Heart Association, as a 7-item tools such as; 1)nonsmoking, 2)body mass index <25, 3)regular physical activity, 4)eating fish twice a week or more and fruits and vegetables at least 3 times a day, 5)cholesterol <200 mg/dL[untreated], 6)fasting glucose <100 mg/dL[untreated],and 7)blood pressure <120/80 mm Hg[untreated] These findings may support the promotion of cardiovascular health to prevent development of risk factors associated with dementia. MCG is the non-invasive test device to detect the cardiovascular disease related to the above metrics. Check MCG and improve your life style not only for your cardiovascular health but also for dementia. For more details of the study, please see th...

A cohort study is published in the U.S. mentioning that prolonged leisure-time sitting (6+ vs <3 hours/day) is associated with higher risk of not only cardiovascular disease (including coronary heart disease and stroke-specific mortality),  but also cancer, diabetes, kidney disease and other diseases. This cohort study includes 127,554 men and women who were free of major chronic disease at study entry and among whom 48,784 died during 21 years follow-up, and supports that encouraging individuals to reduce sedentary time may provide health benefits. Premier Heart's  MCG is an easy test to check the condition of your heart. Because MCG is non-invasive test, it is beneficial for the people who have no symptom but spend longer time in sitting in their lifestyle. For the details of the study, please refer to the article from here .

A clinical study using MCG is accepted and will be presented in the 59th Annual scientific meeting of Japan Society of Ningen Dock, which is the largest conference in Japan for health checkup centers. In the study, the data of ECG and MCG for more than 300 patients are compared to CT and other cardiac examinations. The 59th Annual scientific meeting of Japan Society of Ningen Dock will be held in August 30th and 31st in Niigata, Japan, where Premier Heart exhibits MCG as an exhibitor. Japan society of Ningen Dock is the largest organization for health check up in Japan and more than 4,000 doctors, nurses, and people related to medical entity will gather the meeting. If you have chance to come to Japan, please visit the conference and listen to the presentation. For details, please contact Premier Heart International.

This trial was conducted at 28 locations and 1,220 patients who are with stenosis >50%, comparing PCI + medical therapy to medical therapy alone. The 888 patients who are FFR<0,80 were randomly categorized in either group. At 5 years, the patients FFR-guided PCI group showed significantly lower rate than medical therapy only group, for composite end point of death, myocardial infarction, or urgent revascularization. For details of this study, please refer to the following site. Five-Year Outcomes with PCI Guided by Fractional Flow Reserve(The New England journal of medicine) .....To manage patients after treatment, high accuracy tests requires stress and invasion to the patients, such as catheter, contrast agent, radiation and excersize. MCG is the test to detect abnormality of heart cell without any invasion. It is useful for long term monitoring of the patients who had surgery or events without invasion.

   About 422 Million adults were suffered from diabetes in 2014 worldwide, as reported by WHO in 2016. One of the leading cause of death in these patients is heart disease. According to the report, about 2.2 million deaths are from cardiovascular diseases, chronic kidney disease, and others related to higher-than-optimal blood glucose. Also, adults with diabetes have a two or three times higher rate of cardiovascular disease (CVD) than adults without diabetes. The study conducted in Japan revealed that the heart disease is the No.1 Killer of diabetes. This study follows 1939 diabetic patients in Osaka about 10 years, and the mortality rates per 1000 person-years were 31.35 for males and 21.99 for females. Among them, heart disease killed 19.5%, cerebrovascular disease 16.7% and renal disease 13.1%. Thus this study showed heart disease is the No.1 killer of diabetes. It is told that many of diabetic patients are suffered from diabetic peripheral neuropathy. In heart it ...

The ischemic heart disease caused by stenosis is called "structural ischemia". It can be found by CAG(Coronary Angiogram) in large vessel.  However, there are other cause of ischemia called "functional ischemia", which is sometimes hard to detect by imaging examination especially for small vessels. Conventional imaging examinations are not designed to detect such disease. Functional ischemia is the condition where heart muscle is less active mainly due to the supply of oxygen is insufficient by stenosis of large vessel. It is told that the blood flow of the coronary artery is said to be about 20% of the whole heart. Therefore, even if there is no stenosis in the coronary artery itself, there are cases where the cardiac function declines when the peripheral blood, inside of heart wall, inside of inner blood vessel and etc., are in poor condition. (Some of them are called "Micro-vessel disease" or "small vessel diseases") Further, ...

MCG clinical study was presented at ESC Acute Cardiovascular Care 2018 in March 3rd, in Milan, Italy. This study was conducted in Myanmar, where the locations of the cath-lab are very limited.  MCG was compared with CAG, and it showed high sensitivity and specificity for the presence of severe CAD by CAG (≥ 75%). By Author, it is evaluated as “MCG could be used for prompt detection of severe CAD in order to start appropriate (PCI/Optimal Medical Therapy) treatments in the emerging country such as Myanmar where less medical facilities and skills are available.”

The MCG case report is published in the issue of February of “MIMIS DOCTOR”, the famous trusted information source of health care in Malaysia. The author, Dr.Ebrahim reported  a case that MCG score is low even the stenosis is  recognized by CTA. However in this patient, he also recognized collateral circulation supplying enough blood to the heart cell instead of the main vessel, which may affect the MCG score is low. He concluded “Coronary artery computed tomography angiogram is currently used to assess coronary artery disease. Multifunction cardiogram is a new diagnostic tool in cardiac care to detect microvascular and cellular function of the heart muscles.” For details, please see the attached journal.