GENERAL DESCRIPTION
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Prevention and early diagnosis of vascular and coronary heart disease
are mostly based on the determination of hypercholesterolemia, as a risk
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HOW TO
- Be sure that protective cap is not removed. Load lancet device pushing
protective cap inside it.
- Twist off the protective cap as described in the second picture and then
take out when it easily turn.
- Press the disinfected fingertip on the part of lancet device where
protective cap is just removed, be careful to position it not too close the
nail and not in the centre of finger tip.
Then press little to liver to hear a click. In the case the puncture was not performed, it is possible to re-load the lancet device housing-back the needle by pressing the protective cap into his original site. Lancing device is single use device: do not use to perform a second puncture.
- Let go out drop of blood and put it on the white reactive area in the
centre of the green zone without touching the reactive area with the
finger.
- Wait about 35-40 seconds to let the chemical reaction to develop.
- Turn the strip on the backside.
- Within next 25 seconds compare the developed colour with each colour area of the comparative card by positioning of the backside of the strip behind the comparative card in correspondence with the holes. Read on the comparative card the written respective cholesterol concentration.
INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS
Since the test result is a semi-quantitative evaluation involving colour, shade and intensity, it is useful the opinion of a second person on final result. It is important to perform the color comparison within next 25 seconds, otherwise the colour will going to be lighter and the evaluated concentration will be lower than the real one. Each colour area corresponds to a cholesterol value.
Lightest colour is cholesterol 130 mg/dl. A reactive strip with a colour lighter than 130 mg/dl has to be considerate as a cholesterol level lower than 130 mg/dl. A reactive strip with a colour darker than 350+ mg/dl has to be considerate as a cholesterol level higher than 350 mg/dl.
Normal and abnormal values (according to the latest criteria)
Less than < 200 mg/dL = Desirable Blood Cholesterol
200 to 239 mg/dL= Borderline High Blood Cholesterol
Greater than >> 240 mg/dL and above = High Blood Cholesterol
Important! All results higher than 200 mg/dl have to be repeated with a laboratory quantitative method before to make a hypercholesterolemia diagnosis.