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How does that breath test work in practice? I specifically wonder about the hygiene of the mouthpiece if there is one. Is there a disposable mouthpiece included when you use the Health Monitor?
A disposable mouthpiece must be necessarily sealed for each client. In fact, how these mouthpieces will change. Do I need to take them out of the machine and change them myself on the hose? Or will the hose be pulled into the machine and automatically change there? And the apparatus must be constantly filled with new mouthpieces. Hello. After payment, the device issues a straws for the test. |
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How does that breath test work in practice? I specifically wonder about the hygiene of the mouthpiece if there is one. Is there a disposable mouthpiece included when you use the Health Monitor?
A disposable mouthpiece must be necessarily sealed for each client. For each person individual mouthpiece is used. Of course. |
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I think these machines will not be able to give 100% accurate result. In studies of this type there will always be errors. But even if this percentage of accuracy is high, then this will benefit humanity.
I'm not knowledgable enough to say if these machines will work fine or not. I'm more thinking about the morality of the system. Imagine this machine tells you that you may have cancer on an airport.. before a very long flight ... what would go through your mind? Hmm.... very good guess, I hadn't even thought of. But the test result is not a diagnosis. Only a number of clinical tests can accurately a final diagnosis. it's not the machine's job to diagnose you with cancer, more like warn you that you may have a problem with your health. seek a medical professional. If this device simply says that you have health problems, this is nonsense. Health problems for any person! He just does not know about them. And the user who used this machine, and got the result that you have health problems, will contact the doctor. The doctor will refute or confirm this diagnosis.) Question. If you need to see a doctor, why do you need this device? Which will not give you the exact answer and make you care and worry! Hello, please the following article: https://medium.com/healthmonitor/detection-of-lung-cancer-e17f6a7a03eaModus operandi of Health Monitor The basic concept of the analysis is the spectral analysis of the mixture of gases that the subject exhales. The spectrum of the exhaled air always changes if someone suffers from any pulmonary pathology. The device allows these changes to be observed, measured and registered. Metabolism of cancer cells significantly changes and they begin to synthesize a number of volatile organic compounds: • Ammonia • Isoprene • Ethan • Pentane • Acetone Each of these substances absorbs light with a certain wavelength. Due to their technological features Health Monitor capture and quantify these spectral disturbances. If high concentrations of the above compounds are detected in the exhaled air, then this is an occasion to undergo a full screening involving CT, MRI, and so on. Could you link some scientific papers that cover the fundamental researches which have been done on this specific topic? Hello. Here is the very first answer of Google https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12796197And on the Russian-language resource is https://cyberleninka.ru/article/v/osobennosti-spektrov-pogloscheniya-vydyhaemogo-vozduha-bolnyh-neinfektsionnymi-hronicheskimi-zabolevaniyami-hronicheskaya |
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The Health Monitor is also said to detect lung cancer symptoms. Does that mean it detects when you have definite lung cancer cells or does it detect the signs that one is at high risk of getting lung cancer?
I'm somewhat concerned if the system gives a wrong diagnosis and the company will eventually be sued by the concerned user/patient.  There is a big difference between saying "You have been diagnosed with cancer, start treatment immediately" and "Your breath contains markers that indicate a higher risk of cancer. Consider a professional checkup." But that is not my question. I want to know if the monitor measures symptoms that are unique to lung cancer patients, or an increased amount of particles that could lead to lung cancer. To detect contamination of inhaled air, the apparatus is not designed. He can detect in the exhaled air certain chemicals that are synthesized by diseased cells in the process of carcinogenesis. If, for example, a high level of pentane is detected in the examination - this may be a sign of several diseases. But if isoprene and ethane are detected against a background of high levels of pentane, then this is already a weighty sign of oncology. Do not risk getting cancer, but already started the process. After this, you need to go to the doctors, be surveyed, undergo a biopsy, clarify all the details. Here, the Healt Monitor is just an indicator. Highly sensitive. is only a first signal, should be seen as prevention, periodic checks, certainly if there are signs of something at the machinery/healt monitor then you have to go to the doctor and deepen the analysis and possibly start the appropriate care Quite right. A person will not do CT or MRI of the lungs until he is all right with well-being. A study on the Healtn Monitor is fast and cheap, allows you to accurately identify the signs of carcinogenesis. Then we need to more accurately look for the process, find and treat at an early stage. and this applies not only to lung cancer, but also to some other diseases. |
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The Health Monitor is also said to detect lung cancer symptoms. Does that mean it detects when you have definite lung cancer cells or does it detect the signs that one is at high risk of getting lung cancer?
I'm somewhat concerned if the system gives a wrong diagnosis and the company will eventually be sued by the concerned user/patient. There is a big difference between saying "You have been diagnosed with cancer, start treatment immediately" and "Your breath contains markers that indicate a higher risk of cancer. Consider a professional checkup." But that is not my question. I want to know if the monitor measures symptoms that are unique to lung cancer patients, or an increased amount of particles that could lead to lung cancer. To detect contamination of inhaled air, the apparatus is not designed. He can detect in the exhaled air certain chemicals that are synthesized by diseased cells in the process of carcinogenesis. If, for example, a high level of pentane is detected in the examination - this may be a sign of several diseases. But if isoprene and ethane are detected against a background of high levels of pentane, then this is already a weighty sign of oncology. Do not risk getting cancer, but already started the process. After this, you need to go to the doctors, be surveyed, undergo a biopsy, clarify all the details. Here, the Healt Monitor is just an indicator. Highly sensitive. |
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The Health Monitor is also said to detect lung cancer symptoms. Does that mean it detects when you have definite lung cancer cells or does it detect the signs that one is at high risk of getting lung cancer?
Hello. Metabolism of cancer cells significantly changes and they begin to synthesize a number of volatile organic compounds: • Ammonia • Isoprene • Ethan • Pentane • Acetone Each of these substances absorbs light with a certain wavelength. Due to their technological features Health Monitor capture and quantify these spectral disturbances. If high concentrations of the above compounds are detected in the exhaled air, then this is an occasion to undergo a full screening involving CT, MRI, and so on. An accurate diagnosis with localization, type, size of the tumor, the device can not deliver. But it will allow to find signs of danger still at that stage when treatment will be as effective as possible. Even before the onset of complaints and symptoms of lung cancer. |
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The device is able to detect millions of parts of substances (ppm), purely technical, the accuracy of the data is close to 100%. But when we are dealing with the human body, such confidence can not be.
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The device, Health Minitor, has not yet passed the necessary clinical trials and is not a full-fledged diagnostic medical device.
Therefore, its results must be confirmed by any certified methods.
And there as you are lucky - CT, MRI and ultrasound are not always accurate data guarantee. Though they are certified.
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In principle, this is the main purpose of the device - an accessible and fast assessment of the state of health.
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Hello,
later our doctor and scientist will connect and provide more information about the machine.
THX for the information, so i will wait and have a look at your project... Hello. Some data on the site http://www.healthmonitor.pro/ can be viewed. The results of randomized clinical trials are not available, since they require considerable time. |
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Never knew before you can learn such things with only a breath test.
By the way, what is the accuracy on cancer? It's a big disease to tell people that you can have it.
I hope it gives false positive less than %1
Hello. Specific tests of the device for detecting lung cancer have not yet been carried out. But there are research materials in 2012, at the Siberian State Medical University. The results show that even at the T2N1M0 stage of lung cancer, spectra of a number of specific substances - ethane, isoprene and others - can be detected in the exhaled air. Given that the Healtn Monitor can detect millionths of different impurities in the exhaled air, we are sure that false-negative results will be virtually eliminated. I hope you're right. a false positive will put off people from using it. Of course, until the relevant studies have been carried out, it is too early to position the device as a means of diagnosing lung cancer. But technically, the device allows you to detect the volatile substances of breathing, the smallest impurities. This allows us to rely on high reliability of the data obtained. |
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I wonder if this technique of detecting cancer from the breathe is similar to the way of using dogs to "smell" cancer
Interesting comparison)) Something in common is there, the device can detect millions of parts of the admixtures of volatile substances in the exhaled air. As far as it relates to the capabilities of dogs - it is unknown. But most likely, the dog will not be able to detect cancer, diabetes, COPD and other diseases with sufficient accuracy and reliability. |
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Never knew before you can learn such things with only a breath test.
By the way, what is the accuracy on cancer? It's a big disease to tell people that you can have it.
I hope it gives false positive less than %1
Hello. Specific tests of the device for detecting lung cancer have not yet been carried out. But there are research materials in 2012, at the Siberian State Medical University. The results show that even at the T2N1M0 stage of lung cancer, spectra of a number of specific substances - ethane, isoprene and others - can be detected in the exhaled air. Given that the Healtn Monitor can detect millionths of different impurities in the exhaled air, we are sure that false-negative results will be virtually eliminated. |
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Where will you start to distribute these vending machines? Czech Republic first or EU countries at once?
Yes, they plan to initially start their Health monitor network in the EU. Btw, Czech Republic is also a member of the EU. I'll rephrase: will the distribution start on a larger scale in the EU countries from the beginning or do they plan to concentrate first on Czech Republic, since their company is established there and I imagine it would be easier to launch health monitor network there and then expand to other EU member states? Hello, we will install pretty soon a machine in Czech Republic but we also plan to move fast into other countries (we just need to sign a service contract with a local maintenance company to provide assistance) Do you have a roadmap for the test with this machine? Hello, we have already ended tests for diabetes and close to the end for lung cancer and ulcer. But, basically, our tests never end since we are now focusing on other diseases as well. Can more or less any disease be deteced by the analysis of exhaled breath? Which other diseases do you want to focus next? In perspective, Health Monitor can be used to diagnose and determine the degree of activity of a large number of diseases. Our lungs, apart from the respiratory ones, also have a secretory function (for example, the smell of alcohol from the mouth). The construction of the device and the principle of its operation imply detection of the smallest admixtures of different gases in the air, which we exhale. For these impurities, a well-founded preliminary diagnostic conclusion can be made. The diagnostic principle itself - gas analysis - has been well studied in medicine. Just the device Health Monitor brings this research to a fundamentally new quality level. For more details, please see: https://medium.com/healthmonitor |
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Anyone with diabetes can measure blood glucose and, if necessary, go to the ambulance. Do I understand correctly? Does the test take a few seconds?
At the moment, the machine is meant as a general health check. If you suffer from diabetes, you should act properly Well, in my understanding, if the machine can detect diabetes, it measures the amount of glucose in the blood. Or have I misunderstood the principle of operation of the apparatus. There is another method of diagnosing diabetes, which I don't know. Hello. Standard glucometers determine the level of glucose in the blood. But as for diabetes, the Health Monitor identifies its main markers: acetone. These are volatile substances released from the blood, through the lungs. Due to this device allows you to identify diabetes in those people who are not yet aware of their disease, in very early stages, when the symptoms of the disease is not yet, the level of glycated proteins is minimal. |
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i'm diabetic myself so this is quite interesting. so this basically checks the level of acetone in your breath and gauges your blood sugar levels from that? but what about diabetics who are on a ketogenic diet and would presumably have near-constant "keto-breath" with high levels of acetone? would it basically be unusable for them?
Hello. Your question is very relevant and appropriate. The diagnosis of high glucose levels using the Health Monitor device is really based on the detection of high concentrations of acetone in the exhaled air. The products that is part of ketogenic diet lead to acetonemia and obviously this volatile substance will be released during respiration. Acetone will be register by the device. But in the case of ketogenic diets there is one nuance: a person already knows that he has diabetes and that there will be high concentrations of acetone in the exhaled air. We primarily focus on those people whose diabetes is just beginning and who do not yet know about their condition. The main task which the device is designed to solve - early diagnosis. Therefore, if the Health Monitor reveals high levels of acetone in the breath against a background of complete well-being we recommend that you contact the doctor to clarify the diagnosis. People with an already established diagnosis can also use it if sugar-reducing drugs are used to correct the sugar level (ketone diet is not suitable for everyone). P.S. Since the ketone diet is used for the treatment of other diseases, for example epilepsy, your question is very useful and will help us develop more detailed recommendations on the use of the device. |
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Во-первых настораживают проекты, которые первым делом обещают невиданные прибыли инвесторам (вместо того чтобы ознакомить с концепцией), а во-вторых массовый сбор анализов не должен быть реализован, потому что статистически очень большой шанс выдать положительный результат, когда человек на деле ничем не болеет. Мое личное мнение, скам
Доброго дня. Пока не будут проведены все клинические исследования, необходимые для сертификации Health Monitor в качестве медицинской диагностической платформы, результаты конечно стоит перепроверять. Но: - сам принцип, заложенный в основу работы прибора уже давно используется в медицине. Взять тот же уреазный тест по выявлению хеликобактеорной инфекции. - каждый газ/вещество/химическое соединение/элемент таблицы Менделеева имеет свои уникальные спектральные характеристики. - спектральный газоанализатор Health Monitor предназначен для спектрального анализа выдыхаемого воздуха и не предназначен для установки клинических диагнозов. Здесь, по моему мнению, уместна аналогия с быстрыми тестами на гепатит, наркотики, ВИЧ и так далее: при положительном результате, его все равно перепроверяют. А насчет высокого шанса ложноположительных результатов - гораздо чаще люди ошибаются, чем современная машина, созданная для решения узкого круга задач. |
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Индивидуально подбирать, оценивать эффективность тренировок и самое важное - выяснять степень готовности к определенному типу нагрузок. Те мониторинговые системы, что сейчас используются - не совсем, мягко говоря, компактны. И денег стоят очень немалых.
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