Gone are the times, when we used to visit the doctor or get health checkups only when advised. The world we live in, with increasing pollution levels every day, unhealthy food consumption which sometimes become unavoidable, busy work life leaving little time for exercise, not as much physical exercise as we did in childhood, all these factors contribute to deteriorating health. This makes preventive healthcare much more important than it was before.
People are indeed becoming more educated and empowered about their own health and rightly so, as it is the need of the hour. People are consciously finding ways to lower their risk of various conditions or diseases by maintaining a healthy diet, weight, and level of physical activity, not to forget getting regular health checkups to monitor their health. Even doctors nowadays advise and highlight the importance of prevention with the means of full body checkups as the number of patients with diseases like diabetes and hypertension at an early age continue to increase.
5 main reasons to go under regular body checkup
Awareness of Personal Health
Leading a fast paced and busy work life, many individuals go about for years completely oblivious of the state of their health only to realize it when those conditions get severe. Getting these individuals aware of the importance of regular health checkups is necessary. These preventive health checkups make them more aware of their personal health so they can take the right measures by making appropriate changes in their lifestyle.
Encourages Healthy Habits
Let's face the fact - there are very few people except fitness trainers who actually consciously take care of their health. Having an idea of your health can encourage you to lead a healthy lifestyle by developing healthier habits. Such changes include healthy diet alternatives, regular exercise, and stress management (yes, mental health is as important). These changes happen because seeing improvement in your medical test results over a period of time can prove to be a great motivator. Healthy habits can help maintain your cholesterol, BMI, and stress levels.
Keeps Your Body in best Shape
As you start getting regular health checkups, you start building healthy habits, eating good, beneficial to healthy food, taking out time every day for exercise, managing your mental health, all of which will indeed be beneficial to your body, helping it to get in best shape.
Problems like hormonal imbalances, blood pressure fluctuations, and other often neglected health concerns are recognized through frequent health checkups and ultimately minimized by making lifestyle changes. As a result, you'll feel fit, healthy, and energized.
Helps maintain a consistently Strong Immune System
Strong Immune System- a grave necessity since the last two years and maybe for many years to come, who knows. A strong immunity cannot be achieved overnight, it develops with time, with healthy habits and getting enough of the needed macro and micro nutrients, vitamins, and minerals from eating healthy food.
And what will make you turn to those healthy habits? How will you know how strong your immune system is? By knowing how healthy your body is from the inside. And, how will you know how strong your body is from the inside?
Regular Body Check-Up
It is often because people who go for regular health checkups know what their body needs which makes them subconsciously choose healthy options, develop healthy habits, boosting their immune response as a result. As a result, they're less vulnerable to common colds and infections. This also enables them to cope up with their busy lifestyles. On the opposite hand, people that don't attend to the importance of regular health checkups are more likely to possess weaker immune systems.
Saving Cost.
How? You may ask. Most people usually tend to believe that getting regular health checkups can cost them a lot of money. They consider it to be an expensive luxury. This is the mindset that needs to change. What they don't realize is that these health checkups, especially a yearly full body checkup, is actually saving them the cost of hospitalization and treatment required when their health conditions become severe as a result of being neglected.
Regular health checkups mitigate the danger of developing more severe illnesses that are costlier to treat. It can help prevent the need for expensive and risky surgeries that become urgent. In other words, health checkups are an excellent way to reduce the necessity for expensive medical treatments within the long run.
What tests are included in a full body check-up?
A Full Body checkup is a complete health analysis or diagnostic scan of your entire body functions, including heart, kidney, liver, lung to ascertain your current health status & to screen you to understand if you've got any apparent warning signs or if any abnormalities are lying inside your body.
These are the tests that are usually performed in full-body checkups:
- Complete blood and urine tests
- Lipid Profile Test
- Cardiac system test which includes Chest X-Ray, ECG & 2D Echo Cardiography
- Vitamin levels check
- Abdominal check- ultrasonography of abdomen & pelvis
- Thyroid function tests: TSH, T3, T4
- Kidney function tests: blood urea, uric acid, serum creatinine
- Liver function tests: SGPT, SGOT, serum bilirubin
- Pulmonary lung function tests
- Diabetes tests i.e. Blood sugar fasting, blood sugar PP
- Hepatitis B tests
- CT calcium scoring
- Total body fat percentage
- Eye health checkup
- PSA- test to detect prostate cancer
- CT coronary angiography (Heart)
- CT Screening of neck vessels (Carotid)
- Bone Mineral Densitometry (BMD)
- Sono-mammography & PAP smear.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".
The health assessments offer you an in-depth insight into your current state of health and provide you the means and motivation to form sustainable changes to your lifestyle.
Unipath specialty laboratory provides home sample collection for your convenience and a range of preventive health checkups which include a variety of preventive health checkup packages.