Maintain your health to the day is essential, so are the screenings for all patients with or without chronic diseases. This allows you to prevent and detect early disease, whose timely treatment prevents or slows the progression to more advanced stages. Therefore, maintaining a healthy life and your health screenings give you peace of mind and thus quality of life.
What is a health check?
Refers to preset programs that include:
- Medical evaluation
- Reviews in Clinical Laboratory
- Procedures according to sex, age and risk factors.
Once that is done the tests and known results, it is a new medical evaluation in which we will give you a report that may include suggestions of treatments, changes in the habits of life, and according to the findings, referrals to other specialists or to preventive programs.
Who should get a medical checkup?
Are all directed to people who want to know their actual state of health, since these must be carried out in a preventive way with regular controls. Specifically people from 18 to 70 years, with and without chronic pathologies
Types of medical checkups by age
Medical check-ups in women according to their ages
- 25 years: it Is recommended to start with the PAP for the control and prevention of cervical cancer.
- 35 years: it Is recommended to add up to the test of detection of the Human Papilloma virus (HPV).
- 40 years: it Is recommended to additionally be checked annually with a Mammogram and, if necessary, supplement with a breast ultrasound.
- 45 years: Focus on the prevention of cardiovascular disease with blood tests: blood count, liver function tests, biochemical profile, and lipid profile.
Medical check-ups in men according to their ages
- 20 years: recommended: test blood pressure, blood lipid profile.
- 30 years: recommended: cholesterol test, glucose test.
- 40 years: recommended: Electrocardiogram, examination of antigen, prostate or PSA test.
- 55: Test to detect colon cancer.
What tests should contain a complete medical check-up?
- Should examinations according to age, risk factors of the patient and the history of individual health to examine any specific pathology. The screening includes a complete blood count, VHS, blood sugar fasting, renal function, uric acid, liver function tests, lipid profile, urine analysis, chest radiograph, and electrocardiogram.
- You must also control the high blood pressure with a simple outlet pressure in suitable conditions, as well as overweight or obese by measuring the height and weight.
- Finally, by means of a survey of health data is obtained that allow to know the family history, the level of exercise and the consumption of tobacco.
Recommendations before you get a medical check-up
- You will need to come in fasting, fasting should be of 12 hours
- Do not ingest alcohol or drugs
- Refrain from intense physical activity
- The day prior to your check-duérmase at the usual time.
