Chronic diseases have become a common medical challenge worldwide.
Chronic disease and its ongoing condition usually lasts for months or years and cannot be completely cured. They include heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, and cancer. These not only affect the physical health of patients, but also bring a huge economic burden to the families and the society.
According to the report of the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of people suffering from chronic diseases in the world is continuously increasing, and now has exceeded 400 million. The cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases are the most common ones,and they account for more than 80 percent of the premature deaths from all chronic disseases. Seventy-seven per cent of all chronic disease deaths occur in low - and middle-income countries, where the healthcare systems often fail to meet the needs of people with chronic diseases.
With the fast pace of urbanization and modernization, the risk of chronic diseases will continue to rise due to unhealthy lifestyles, such as diet with high salt, high fat and high sugar, lack of exercise, smoking and drinking. Therefore, adopting a healthy lifestyle has become the key for preventing the chronic diseases. Timely diagnosis, treatment and management are important for those at high risk of chronic diseases and those already have them. People at high risk of chronic disease are those who have chronic diseases (such as high blood pressure, diabetes, coronary heart disease, obesity, etc.) or other risk factors (such as old age, with family genetic history, smoking, alcohol drinking, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity) those put them at higher risk of getting the diseases. These people need to pay more attention to their health status and take active preventive measures, such as regular check-up, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, following medical advice and increasing physical exercise, in order to minimize the risk of disease and delay or avoid the development of the disease. The patients of chronic disease need to have regular check-up to ensure effective control of the disease and reduce complications.
Currently, the physical examination and screening methods for chronic disease prevention mainly include POCT, biomarker detection, medical imaging examination, and so on. Among them POCT refers to instant diagnosis technology, which can provide fast, convenient and accurate test results in short time. The test items, commonly used with POCT, include blood glucose, blood lipid, uric acid, myocardial enzymes, etc. POCT application in chronic disease management can help doctors know better about patients' conditions, timely monitoring them, these can avoid disease progression and reduce the occurrence of complications. With the improvement of diagnosis and treatment technology, POCT detection is no longer limited to doctors' offices and clinics, but can also be carried out at home or outdoors, which can better meet the treatment needs of some elderly patients.
WIZ is a POCT products’company engaging in research and development, producing and marketing for the rapid dianostic reagents and deteting instruments. After ten years being focusing on POCT products, Wiz has developed various products for auxiliary diagnosis for chronic diseases, mainly including myocardial infarction, heart failure, kidney failure, colorectal cancer, gastric cancer screening, etc. Please contact our sales for further information about our products.
