By Jose Fernandez Villasenor Originally posted on Freescale’s
Medical by Design, The Embedded Beat blog Early stage detection
of potentially life-risking disease conditions, as well as
easily accessible, low-cost detection devices for the general
population, challenges our healthcare services. Why wait until
you need a triple or quadruple coronary cardiac bypass surgery
if you could easily detect at an early stage the genetic risk
factors for diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, obesity or arterial
hypertension? Early detection can lead to correction with
appropriate medical treatment and changes to the patient’s
lifestyle. How the testing is done The reality is these tests
are not commonly screened in patients worldwide. Sometimes it is
because the patient does not have regular visits to the doctor’s
office and they wait until they have an annoying symptom. Other
times it is because these tests are not available to the general
population or doctors only screen when they are suspicious of a
condition. Think about