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冠军筛选和教育
CHAMPIONS 筛查完全免费，旨在帮助您更好地了解自身健康状况，并掌控您的健康。整个过程快速且保密，为您提供有关心血管健康风险的重要信息，并赋予您做出明智医疗保健决策所需的知识。
From Screening to Action
Screening alone does not improve outcomes. What happens next is what matters. CHAMPIONS is designed to ensure that participants can act on what they learn.
Every participant receives:
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Clear, easy-to-understand explanations of their results
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Education tailored to their language and context
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Guidance on next steps, including how and where to seek care
We connect individuals to primary care providers, specialists, and community resources, including options for those without insurance. For many participants, this is their first meaningful connection to the healthcare system.
The goal is simple: ensure that each person leaves with the understanding and support needed to take the next step.
Identifying Risk Before It Becomes Disease
PAD does not develop in isolation. It is driven by underlying cardiovascular and metabolic conditions that are often silent.
That’s why CHAMPIONS provides simple, on-site testing for key drivers of cardiovascular disease, along with PAD for persons that meet the testing criteria presented on the right.
For many participants, a CHAMPIONS screening is the first time these risks are identified. While they may not yet cause symptoms, they are powerful early indicators of future disease, creating a critical opportunity to act before complications.
High blood pressure is one of the most common and most important risk factors for heart and vascular disease. It often has no symptoms, which is why it’s called a “silent” condition. Measuring blood pressure helps identify risk early, when it can still be managed to prevent complications like heart attack, stroke, and PAD
We follow American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines, which emphasize early identification of atherosclerotic risk (plaque buildup in the arteries). Detecting elevated cholesterol allows for timely treatment before this buildup leads to symptoms or serious disease.
Blood sugar (HbA1c/Diabetes)
Our approach aligns with American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommendations for diabetes screening. Many participants we see have never been tested. In our programs, a meaningful number of people are newly identified with diabetes or prediabetes during screening. HbA1c reflects average blood sugar over several months, making it a more reliable measure than a single glucose reading.
Our approach is guided by international vascular guidelines and is designed to identify disease even in people who may not yet have symptoms.
以下是您在筛查过程中可能会遇到的情况：
1. 入院信息：健康史和人口统计信息
我们将首先收集您的基本信息和健康史。这有助于我们了解您当前的健康状况，并确定筛查过程中需要重点关注的方面。
2. 基本生命体征：身高、体重和血压
我们将测量您的身高、体重和血压，以评估您的整体心血管和代谢健康状况。
3. 即时检测 (POC)：糖化血红蛋白 (HbA1c) 和血脂检测
接下来，我们将进行即时检测，评估您的糖化血红蛋白（HbA1c，用于测量您的长期血糖水平）和血脂水平（用于评估您的胆固醇水平）。这些检测能让我们更深入地了解您的代谢健康状况，帮助我们识别心血管疾病风险。
4. 趾臂指数（TBI）：趾压测试
部分参与者将接受趾臂指数 (TBI) 测试，该测试测量流向脚趾的血流情况，以筛查外周动脉疾病 (PAD)。PAD 通常与腿部血液循环不良有关，并可能增加心血管并发症和截肢的风险。这项无创测试有助于我们识别您血管健康方面的潜在风险。
5. 个性化教育
筛查结束后，您将获得根据您的结果量身定制的个性化健康教育。我们将讨论一些关键主题，例如糖尿病、高胆固醇、高血压和外周动脉疾病的风险。我们还将提供健康保险选择方面的指导，并帮助您联系家庭医生以获得进一步的医疗服务。
我们的目标不仅是识别潜在的健康风险，更重要的是赋予您所需的知识和工具，让您能够更好地掌控自己的健康。“冠军筛查诊所”是迈向更健康未来的积极一步——我们将全程为您提供支持。
Using the Right Tools for the Right Populations
Accurate screening is essential, particularly in high-risk populations. Traditional PAD screening methods, such as the ankle-brachial index (ABI), can be unreliable in individuals with diabetes or chronic kidney disease due to arterial calcification. CHAMPIONS uses the toe-brachial index (TBI), which remains accurate in these populations and allows for earlier, more reliable detection of disease. See this article on the effectiveness of TBI in community settings.
Equally important, TBI can be performed quickly and with minimal training, making it well-suited for community-based settings.
This combination of accuracy and accessibility enables screening that is both clinically rigorous and scalable.