Health Check Specialist in Dusseldorf Prof. Nixdorff

Professor Dr Uwe Nixdorff is a specialist in preventive medicine and diagnostics as well as owner of the Private Practice for Cardiology in Düsseldorf. In addition, he is founder and Medical Director of the European Prevention Center.

Professor Nixdorff's focus is on cardiovascular preventive medicine with a specialism in comprehensive diagnostics (cross-sectional and functional diagnostics) along with dialogue medicine including detailed consultation on lifestyle. As an EPC location, Prof. Nixdorff offers check-up programmes for companies, private customers, and self-paying patients.

Health Check Düsseldorf: Early Detection Ahead of the Onset of Health Complaints

The most important and most innovative focus at Professor Nixdorff's practice is the knowledge and use of latest early detection methods along with exact imaging procedures and patients’ case history observation. This allows possible diseases to be identified well before the actual onset of subjective health complaints. These initiated targeted preventive measures cause the disease to not develop in the first place. In addition to pure preventive diagnostics, genetic risk findings are also incorporated into Professor Nixdorff's treatment concept in order to significantly improve preventive healthcare.

Focus on Cardiovascular Preventive Medicine

An important measure of determining a patient’s risk of developing a heart attack is the "Procam Score" procedure, which indicates the risk of a heart attack event over the next 10 years in percentage terms. This method is based on the work of Professor Assmann and takes into account individual information on age, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, diabetes, cigarette smoking, and family history.

In Professor Nixdorff's prevention concept, this is not only a theoretical number, but the basis for further recommendations and early detection screening tests, which the specialist offers level in his private practice at the highest level.

Using state-of-the-art echocardiographic methods such as tissue Doppler echocardiography, early detection of atherosclerosis and vascular function diagnostics (pulse wave diagnostics), the experienced medical specialist is able to offer individual diagnosis and therapy for coronary heart diseases.

Focus on Dialogue Medicine with Lifestyle Consultation

For Prof. Nixdorff, a detailed individual history and knowledge of the strength of primary prevention is essential in order to identify diseases in advance. In some cases, these can even replace therapeutic measures such as a heart catheter.

The specialist in early detection focuses on innovations for the prevention of heart disease and insights from reliable study results, which are incorporated in his dialogue medicine and lifestyle consultation.

For example, endurance sport, which had previously been considered a sufficient measure, was supplemented by strength training. New insights into the problem of excessive carbohydrate consumption have now been added into the field of nutrition. A further aspect is the importance of vitamin D, which can reduce the amount of heart attack incidences by half, if concentration levels taken are sufficient.

Checkups for Managers and Company Employees at the European Prevention Center

In 2005, the European Prevention Center (EPC) was founded by Professor Nixdorff to create a comprehensive, interdisciplinary prevention programme for early detection and prophylaxis. The European Prevention Center is one of the most advanced providers of preventive medical checkups for companies and their employees. It strengthens knowledge concerning healthcare learning by providing training of prevention programmes, through quality assurance of all medical services and by the way of implementing marketing and organisational tasks. One of the company's leading value propositions is the focus on the well-being of its customers.

EPC checkups are offered at the Düsseldorf Medical Center using state-of-the-art equipment and finely tuned professional examination procedures and applications. The aim is to avoid life-threatening cardiovascular diseases.

Further information is available on Professor Nixdorff's website, on the website of the European Prevention Center (EPC) and on the website of the HANAKO GmbH.