For the 19th consecutive year, MedAire (booth 775) will offer free cholesterol screening to attendees of the 62nd Annual National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Meeting and Convention.
Test results, which are available within approximately five minutes, will be discussed one-on-one inside the booth with a MedAire MedLink Global Response Center emergency room doctor, including MedAire Medical Director David Streitwieser, FACEP, MD.
“Last year, we saw 600 conference guests in our booth taking advantage of this critical health screening,” reports Dr. Streitwieser. “Because cholesterol levels tend to rise with age, they should be checked often.”
The American Heart Association estimates that about 36.6 million American adults have cholesterol levels of 240 mg/dL or higher—the level at which cardiovascular risk begins to rise.
According to AHA.org, your Total Blood Cholesterol will fall into one of these three levels: