"Longevity isn't just about ‘living longer’, but about ‘living a longer and healthier life.'"
If I had to define SinoUnited Health's Longevity Clinic in one sentence, it is ‘an internationally standardized, medical longevity medicine program’” said Dr. Kathy Shi, Founder and CEO of SinoUnited Health, President of Shanghai SinoUnited Hospital, and Chief of Cardiology Department.
Recently, under the official guidance of the globally renowned top-tier medical institution Mayo Clinic, SinoUnited Health officially inaugurated its Longevity Clinic in Shanghai.
Dr. Shi revealed that the clinic is deeply rooted in SinoUnited Health's nearly decade-long health management practice, serving tens of thousands of families through continuous physical examinations and interventions, standardized processes, evidence-based data systems, and the collaborative experience of its “General Practitioner + Specialist” multidisciplinary center. After over a year of preparation, SinoUnited Health has assembled a multidisciplinary team spanning cardiology, endocrinology, neurology, sports medicine, nutrition, sleep medicine, psychology, family medicine, and TCM.
By integrating molecular and proteomic analyses, biomarkers, advanced imaging, digital platforms, and the latest global evidence on lifestyle medicine, the clinic comprehensively introduces Mayo Clinic's longevity medicine concepts, grounded in robust evidence-based medicine and its advanced chronic disease and anti-aging management models to China.
Localizing International Standards
Dr. Stacey Rizza, Executive Medical Director, International Practice and Asia Pacific at Mayo Clinic, stated that the Longevity Clinic established by SinoUnited Health strictly adheres to the Healthy Longevity Medicine
Clinic Standard – the world's first evidence-based and internationally recognized clinical guidelines for longevity clinics. It leverages SinoUnited Health's strong capability in comprehensively addressing “specialized diseases + chronic diseases”. “While introducing top-tier international medical knowledge and technology, SinoUnited Health’s Longevity Clinic aims to establish a longevity clinic system suited to the Chinese population, providing scientific, systematic, personalized, and verifiable medical-grade longevity management solutions.”
SinoUnited Health, as a serious medical institution launching Longevity Clinic, highlighted some key merits. First merit is the depth of multidisciplinary collaboration; second, the benchmarking against international standards and their localization; third, the application of digitalization and AI.
Professor Jinglei Wu, Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Association for Science and Tech and President of the Shanghai Medical Association attended the launch ceremony.
Multidisciplinary Relay
Dr. Shi stated: “World Class Standard of Care with Chinese Innovation – health knows no borders. SinoUnited Health, grounded in international medical standards, converges cutting-edge global technology and multidisciplinary expertise, using digitalization and AI as the engine to truly implement longevity medicine as a multidisciplinary relay.”
“Each discipline has its blind spots, but sitting together at the same table for the same patient allows us to cover each other's shortcomings.” SinoUnited Health's multidisciplinary team integrates “specialized answers” into a “holistic plan”, thereby clarifying and solidifying solutions for complex problems.
Illustrating this, Dr. Shi shared a recent case: A patient engaging in long-term, high-intensity lower-body training developed a varicocele. This condition often involves abdominal pressure mechanisms and can potentially impact testicular function and testosterone levels, subsequently affecting physical fitness, metabolism, and training outcomes. A single-specialty perspective struggles to identify the full chain of risks. Doctors from SinoUnited Health's Sports Medicine, Urology/Andrology, Endocrinology, and Cardiology departments conducted a joint assessment of the patient, ultimately providing a solution with clear causality, controllable risks, and a defined pathway.
Moving forward, SinoUnited Health will leverage this core competitive advantage in the field of longevity medicine to truly realize the positive effects of its collaborative network centered on primary care coordination and multidisciplinary joint decision-making.
Furthermore, supported by evidence-based medicine, SinoUnited Health will assist individuals interested in longevity management by translating six key lifestyle factors significantly associated with longevity into actionable daily plans.
These include regular moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, high-quality nutrition, smoking avoidance, alcohol reduction, maintaining a healthy weight, and strong social connections (staying connected and “present” even after retirement).
The ultimate goal is to combine these foundational interventions with dynamic re-evaluation and goal management, ensuring changes are “visible, sustainable, and effective long-term.”
AI & Digital Platform Empowerment
The challenge of multidisciplinary collaboration lies in dispersed information and communication costs. SinoUnited Health addresses this by introducing AI and digital platforms for both physicians and patients.
Physician-side AI integrates medical history, examinations, medications, and cross-disciplinary findings, highlighting potential interactions, assisting joint decision-making, reducing “communication loss”, and enhancing collaboration efficiency and consistency.
Patient-side AI aggregates individual data, goals, and preferences to provide readable, actionable, and trackable recommendations; offers intelligent reminders for plan changes, abnormal trends, and follow-up milestones.
Throughout the entire longevity management process, the digital platform ensures continuity, encompassing assessment, planning, execution, follow-up, and re-evaluation. It enables data accumulation and quality improvement while providing the infrastructure for acquiring and analyzing real-world data from wearables, home monitoring, genetic and molecular diagnostics, and novel therapies.
SinoUnited Health adheres to the principle of “open-minded but prudent in implementation”- prioritizing safety before efficacy, validation before scaling, steadily advancing the Longevity Clinic program within ethical and regulatory frameworks. Indeed, longevity medicine is still rapidly growing: patient interest is high, translating research into practice remains challenging, and unified standards at the clinic level are still being established. Therefore, collaboration to build clinical standards and research databases is even more crucial.
In the future, SinoUnited Health will collaborate with domestic and international academic and clinical institutions to promote standardization, conduct joint research, and help establish longevity medicine as a core component of preventive and personalized healthcare.
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