Many serious health problems like blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol start to develop in our body without us even noticing. By the time we feel sick the problem is already very serious. That is why taking care of our health is so important for our long term well being. We can see this in areas where older people are often healthier than young people today.

When we go for a health checkup the doctor checks our body and also ask us few things about how we have been doing how is our daily rotiune such as our sleep pattern dietry habits based on this doctor decide which tests we need to under go. These tests include blood tests, urine tests, sugar tests, cholesterol tests, liver tests and kidney tests. The doctor sends these tests to a lab to see if we have any health problems and to make sure all our organs are working properly.

The benefits of health check-ups are:

1. Finding health problems early. If we find health problems early we can start treatment away.

2. Getting faster. If we find serious health problems early we can treat them faster and they will not get worse. For example if we find cancer early it is easier to treat.

3. Controlling health problems. If we find health problems, like blood pressure or diabetes early we can control them better.

4. Taking care of ourselves. We can also take care of health problems by exercising and eating healthy food like fruits and vegetables.

5. Regular health check-ups save us time and money in the run by preventing serious health problems and expensive hospital bills.

Which age group should undergo regular health check-ups?

Adults – Above 18 years

Senior citizens – Above 60 years

Patients who have high issue of high blood pressure, Diabetes -they should undergo test periodically to keep your health issues in under control.

Those with family history of diseases.

Pregnant women.

Those people who are dealing with Stressful jobs and low physical activity.

Those people who drink and smoke daily should have regular health check up at least once a year