How Important Are Preventive Health Check-Ups?

Preventive health check-ups have become more indispensable to positive health in the 21st century than even a healthy diet and regular exercise. This is because a number of factors have cropped up and factored into human health maintenance, which is beyond people’s control. These factors include environmental pollution, faulty genes, and adulterated food products.

Therefore, to ensure that your health is really fine, and if not, to diagnose diseases as early as possible, regular health check-ups are something you should do without fault. These are the most important types:

1. A complete body check: You should get your body fully checked once every year. This acts as a blanket test for all your organs, including the visceral and the internal, from head to foot.

2. Thyroid examination: This helps clear up doubts related to an under or over-performing thyroid gland, or hormonal deficiencies. You should drop by for this test once after every five years.

3. Blood pressure: This has risks related to heart diseases and even fatal strokes, so you should get your levels checked every month.

4. Liver function: This comprises of a total of 11 tests that detect possible problems with your liver, and otherwise testifies to its healthy functioning. It mainly tests bilirubin, albumin, and serum globulin levels.

5. Kidney function: This comprehensively tests your kidney functioning through five extensive tests. This tests for calcium, urea nitrogen, and uric acid levels.

6. Lipid profile: This is a very important test for you in terms of your entire body. It checks for normalcy of triglyceride and cholesterol levels, that can get lethal if garbles.

7. Iron deficiency profile: This checks for iron functioning and deficiencies in your body, checking for important parameters like serum iron and its total binding capacity.

8. Diabetes profile: This is also a very essential test as diabetes paralyses millions of Indian lives across the country every year. This tests for blood glucose levels.

9. Complete blood count: This checks for all kinds of important blood cells you have in your body, which are essential for basic bodily functions like defence against infection, oxygen production and hemoglobin level maintenance in blood. It checks for red and white blood cells, platelets, and all their sub-branches.

10. Vitamin D total: This checks for deficiencies or otherwise normal levels of vitamin D in your body. Vitamin D is a very important element and its deficiency causes rickets.

11. Vitamin B12:  This checks for the normalcy of vitamin B12 levels in your body. Vitamin B12 is also integral to your body’s healthy functioning. It helps in DNA production and in keeping your nerve and blood cells in good shape.

Preventive and regular health check-ups have become an integral need for good health in current times. If you are ready with the results of the 12 above, you can comfortably go to bed each night, feeling good about your body instead of pressurized.