Preventive health checkups help to screen and identify specific health conditions like those involving the liver, kidneys, heart, associated health conditions and also help in other health risk assessments like for some cancers, our immunity status, and general well-being.

With the advent of technology and industrialization, human life is becoming sedentary with each passing day. To add to that, the environment is changing by the day and creating adverse effects on human health. Our daily lifestyle is becoming increasingly complex and there is no time to eat properly, sleep well, leave alone exercise! All these factors show up in our body in the form of various health conditions. If not addressed in the start, they become complicated, incurable and many a times, loss in life.

A regular health checkup is a requirement of our lives in this era. It has a host of tests that check the health and functioning of all your organs and blood, and reports the status. Your report helps you in planning the curative path for the diseases that were identified in the report. Early diagnosis helps in a proper treatment and therefore cure. Most of severe lifestyle health conditions like liver diseases don’t show any symptoms at an early stage, hence a regular full health checkup becomes very important.  

The regularity of health checkups can be quarterly, twice a year or yearly depending on several factors like:

• Age
• Weight
• Family history of diseases like heart ailments and cancer
• Any diagnosed health condition
• Unaccounted nausea, headache, chest or stomach pain
• Stressful and sedentary lifestyle
• Unhealthy eating habits

A  health checkup should be comprehensive and have quality tests that assess the functionality of all body parts. It has a host of biochemical and diagnostic tests. A regular health checkup package should include tests for heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, thyroid, immunity and more. It should also have a pre and post test counselling by an expert physician who can explain your report and provide recommendations. To live healthy & happy, one must keep a check on the body’s functioning by going for regular health checkups. A regular health checkup is important for preventing multiple serious health conditions, detecting early signs of lifestyle disease, and taking care of your overall health.

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