Understand your increased risk for cardiovascular disease and type II diabetes.

Calgary Thermography & Women's Holistic Clinic now offers a simple test for monitoring CardioMetabolic risk using dried blood spots. A few drops of blood from a quick and nearly painless nick of the finger are placed on a filter paper to dry. This can be performed easily at a health care practitioner's office or the convenience of home. The sample is then sent for analysis. With this innovative blood spot test, there is no more wasted time and resources going to a lab for a painful blood draw.

• High-sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (hs-CRP, a marker of inflammation)
• Hemoglobin A1C (HbA1c)
• Fasting Insulin
• Fasting Triglycerides
• Total cholesterol
• LDL cholesterol
• HDL cholesterol
• VLDL cholesterol