Lifestream cholesterol test
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Lifestream Technologies receives FDA 510k clearance to market consumer cholesterol test incorporating Health Risk Assessment technology, enabling users to track cholesterol levels as well as personal risk of heart attack and obesity. Users can obtain a Health Risk Assessment profile after taking a three-minute cholesterol test and entering additional risk factors, including diabetic status, systolic and diastolic blood pressure and HDL-C break-out from a recent lipid profile. The test will be available to consumers through the firm's 1website in late June and move to other distribution channels later this year. McNeil recently announced a licensing agreement with International Medical Innovations to develop and market the PREVU(x) consumer cholesterol test (2"The Tan Sheet" June 7, 2004, p. 10)...