Blood Pressure System Cleared by FDA

Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Called the CVProfiler, the noninvasive system is intended for use in a doctor's office to measure blood pressure, utilizing patented blood pressure waveform analysis technology, and other parameters that point to heart disease. The display screen and printer-generated cardiovascular profile report provide an assessment of the patient's arterial elasticity or flexibility of both large and small arteries.

Clinical investigators have demonstrated that an age-related loss of elasticity of both the large and small arteries correlates with hardening of the arteries and vascular disease. Thus, premature stiffening of patient arteries can be a clinically sensitive marker for the early onset of cardiovascular disease. The CVProfiler was developed by Hypertension Diagnostics, Inc. (St. Paul, MN, USA).