Benefits of Prioritizing Regular Health Check-Up
Are you one of them who doesn’t prioritize their own health? Most of us usually find excuses when it comes to scheduling yearly health check-up. Because, the majority of people feel that they don’t need it and waste of money.
But, getting medical check-ups on time will help in finding out health issues. Furthermore, regular check-ups help you understand your health status for early diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. The age group between 25-50 years is generally recommended to get their health check once every year or once every 2 years. While the age group above 50 are advised to take a routine health check-up at least once a year especially If they are seeing visible symptoms of certain health risks.
Here are some of the benefits of regular health check-ups:
Health Check-Up for early diagnosis of disease:
Firstly, the most important benefit of regular check-up is that it detects diseases before they become fatal. The test results will help your doctor to understand your present health status and risks depending upon your age, gender, and lifestyle. Hence, early detection can help to prevent the disease from progressing.
Health Check-Up to Detect any risks of preventable hereditary diseases:
Secondly, when you consider getting a full body check-up done, it will motivate you to stay healthy. Furthermore, these check-ups are important because they can detect diseases that run in your families for generations. Also, life-threatening diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension can be detected in a regular full body check-up.
Health Check-Up keeps track of your health:
Thirdly, regular health check-ups help in keeping track of your health and it helps to maintain or modify your lifestyle choices. On the other side, with a healthy lifestyle and preventive health checks, one can live a better quality of life. Therefore, it increases the lifespan along with the improvement of health.
Reduces health care costs:
Lastly, preventive health checks help you maintain a quality lifestyle as well as reduce the risk of getting sick. Hence, early detection of health issues before they progress can reduce the burden of healthcare costs.
Following are the tests that are performed in full-body screening:
- Kidney Function: Blood Urea, Uric Acid, Serum Creatinine
- Liver Function tests: SGPT, SGOT, Serum Bilirubin
- Pulmonary Lung Function tests
- Diabetes tests: Blood Sugar Fasting, Blood Sugar PP
- Blood and urine tests
- Lipid Profile Test
- Cardiac system: Chest X-Ray, ECG & 2D Echo Cardiography
- Vitamin Check
- Abdominal Check: Ultrasonography of abdomen & pelvis
- Thyroid Function Tests: TSH, T3, T4
- Hepatitis B tests
- CT Calcium Scoring
- Total body fat percentage
- PSA
- CT Coronary Angiography (Heart)
- CT Screening of Neck Vessels (Carotid)
- Bone Mineral Densitometry (BMD)
- Sono-mammography & Pap smear
To conclude, There are many health care centres and hospitals that provide health care packages that can help you keep the track of your health.
At Umed Diagnostics, below are the Health Check-Up (Full Body) Packages Offered.
1. UMED WHOLE BODY CHECKUP -MALE
2. UMED WHOLE BODY CHECKUP- FEMALE
For more information, please contact
Umed Diagnostics, Miyapur X Road, Hyderabad, Telangana 500004
Phone: 040-48576398
Email: customer.care@umeddiagnostics.in