AboutHealth Preventive

Preventive healthcare or preventive medicine or prophylaxis aims at an absence of disease, either by preventing the occurrence of a fitness problem or by slowing and averting resulting complications after its onset. It consists of measures taken to preserve health, as opposed to the treatment of disease.

Prophylaxis includes the identification and minimization of disease risk factors, existing disease course improvement and early disease detection through screening. Preventive screenings and services help to assess and reduce the risk for diseases and conditions such as hypertension and treating it before it manifests in the body as a marker for a more chronic and fatal disease like stroke.

Who Requires Preventive Medical Check-up?

Ideally, a person at age 30 and beyond should opt for Preventive Medical Check-up. It is used to screen and detect an umbrella of lifestyle diseases, of which the most important ones are:

• Diabetes

• Hypertension

• Heart or Cardiac diseases

• Obesity

Increased stress and lack of time for physical exercise and healthful cooking are the major contributors to developing unhealthy habits. This leads to subsequent and gradual deterioration of our general health, and before we know it, lifestyle diseases come knocking at our door. 

What’s worse is that some of these lifestyle diseases are ‘silent killers’- they harm our body without causing any symptoms. Therefore, Preventive Health Check-up can help a person timely screen these diseases. For example, retinopathy and foot ulcers are common complications of diabetes. With annual eye and foot examinations, you can prevent vision loss and lower-limb amputations. Similarly, it is crucial to control blood pressure and blood cholesterol to alleviate the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

Another important purpose of Preventive Health Check-up is the surveillance of cancer. Many cancers are symptomless and not diagnosing them at an early stage can cost lives. Therefore, people at risk of developing cancer can have a better chance of recovery if they invest in regular health checkups.

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