Sunday, January 19, 2014

While Indians refuse to visit a hospital, unless they need to be placed on a stretcher, Americans, they say, can't get enough. In the United States, annual checkups for more than 8 percent of doctor visits, and costs the health care system $8 billion per year. Each visit takes about 23 minutes, 45 million healthy people check spent adding up to a total of 17 million hours annually.In Europe, a study showed that many routine checkups to over-diagnosis and excessive treatment of relatively mild health problems, some patients take medications for many years no obvious advantage leading led.

But with the average age of patients who diagnosed lifestyle-related diseases on the rise, and plunge heart problems the doctors are early to catch the error here. A case of "Surprise" heart attack, such as actor Farooq Sheikh and thus avoiding.

You don't wait for a heart attack, says Dr. Lekha Pathak, cardiologist. One of ten Indians suffer high blood pressure. And to be the most unaware. For people over 40, I hit on twice-yearly checks. Electrocardiogram (EKG), cardiac stress test, 2D include ECHO and biochemistry blood to blood sugar to check kidney and lipid profile.

Smokers and those that are part of a group at high risk of a family history of cardiac disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure. You must start with these tests at 30.

You are often a heart attack "Surprise" those who have lived with symptoms of high cholesterol and high blood pressure, without even knowing it. This refers not to an age group or gender. But tend to have 40 percent of the patients with cardiac problems under 40.

Start Gynaec visits in mid 1920s, saying Dr. Rajeev Chhabra, gynecologist
Indian women are simply not in the habit of regularly to visit a gynecologist. Most women do not in fact go to a doctor, even though the symptom of a disease are suffering. It is always a last-minute visit, if the pain is unbearable.

You must for women over 45 catch for their bones, as menopause will strike soon. You start with the following tests: CBC, creatinine levels, SSPT and SSPT, calcium and phosphorus, USG (ultrasound), PAP smear and mammography.

Women between the ages of 23 and 30 have annual thyroid tests, prolactin, DHEA-sulphate test and ultrasound. These are purely preventive tests make sure that it no complications if they do decide to realize arise. Lifestyle disorders such as polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCSB) are detected at such times.

In the event that you are sexually active with multiple partners and not insist on the use of condoms, take the PAP smear test every year.

On every known diabetic is an undiagnosed, says Dr. Rajiv Kovil, diabetes
11.8 Million patients with diabetes, add the 65 million living with the metabolic disorder found in the year 2012. Sixty percent of them were part of a routine health checks, diagnosed with silent symptoms lived.


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