Importance of Full-Body Health Checkups
- These days both physical and mental stress is taking a toll on all of us. We are occupied with many things in life from financial to personal issues. Our eating and lifestyle habits, environmental pollutants also affect us in various ways; all these factors could lead to health problems.
- It’s important to take out some time from our busy schedule and take care of our health also.
- A full body checkup is one of the ways to monitor our health. It is useful for both elderly as well as young people.
What Is A Full Body Check-up?
It is a complete health check-up or diagnostic scan of the whole body including heart, lungs, liver to monitor the current health status and to know if there are any abnormalities present inside the body.
It is advisable to go for a complete body check-up each year to know about our health condition. It also alerts us of our unhealthy habits and encourages us to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
The benefits of a complete health check-up are
- It helps us to assess our fitness
- Individuals above 35 years of age should undergo regular complete health checkups.
- A full body check-up is important for early detection of cancer, cardiac, renal related problems to prevent further growth of the disease, timely treatment, and also increases the lifespan of an individual.
- The doctor can guide us in any precautionary measure we need to follow for our good health.
- Health check-up also helps to detect conditions like –
- Family history illness
- History of a pre-existing disease
- It is crucial to have a whole-body examination for anyone who has an unhealthy and chaotic lifestyle.
- Regular check-ups help to increase lifespan, by timely detection of diseases and following any precautionary measures.
- With routine health check-ups of sugar and cholesterol, we can come to know the possibilities of getting diabetes/ cholesterol in the future. If sugar/ cholesterol levels are at the borderline, then the physician can advise on the necessary precautionary measures to prevent it in the future.
- Routine medical check-up assures us that we are healthy and therefore offers peace of mind.
What are the Full Body Checkup tests lists?
The basic full body checkup package usually includes the following tests –
- Cardiac risk markers
- Apolipoprotein – B (APO-B)
- APO B / APO A1 Ratio (APO B/A1)
- Lipoprotein (A) [LP(A)]
- High Sensitivity C-reactive Protein (HS-CRP)
- Apolipoprotein- A1 (APO-A1)
- CT Coronary Angiography (Heart)
- CT Screening of Neck Vessels (Carotid)
- Chest X-Ray, ECG & 2D Echo
- Complete blood picture (CBP)
- Complete urine test (CUE)
- Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) test
- Lipid profile test
- Ultrasound of abdomen & pelvis
- Thyroid Function Tests
- Kidney Function test
- Liver function tests
- Pulmonary Lung Function tests
- Blood urea nitrogen test
- Uric acid test
- Blood Glucose tests for diabetes
- Random Blood Glucose Test
- Fasting Blood Glucose Test
- Postprandial Blood Glucose Test
- HbA1c Test
- Hepatitis B tests
- Vitamin B12 test
- Vitamin D test
- Electrolytes –
- Sodium
- Potassium
- Chloride
- CT Calcium Scoring
- Iron deficiency test
- Total Iron Binding Capacity (TIBC)
- % Transferrin Saturation
- Iron
- Total body fat percentage
- Eye check-up
- Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test
- Bone Mineral Densitometry (BMD)
- Sono-mammography & Pap smear