With the improvement of people’s living standards, people’s health awareness is also stronger and stronger, and many people begin to take the initiative to take health checkups. So what is the role of physical examination? How to choose a medical check-up package? Today, we have Liu Lingling, the attending physician of the International Medical Department of Beijing Friendship Hospital, explain to us.
Improve health awareness and conduct regular health checkups
For the checkup, many people think that I don’t feel any discomfort, so of course I don’t need a checkup; I’m not sick, and after the physical examination, the disease came to me. In fact, these concepts are wrong, because many diseases, such as blood pressure, blood sugar, blood lipid increase, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, abnormal organ function, and even some tumor diseases, All of them may have no obvious clinical symptoms, but when symptoms appear, many of them have been combined with serious clinical complications or are in the advanced stage of the disease, which is very difficult to treat and seriously affects the quality of life. Therefore, it is recommended that everyone must have the awareness of health examinations, at least once a year or every six months, and different groups of people should also have targeted physical examinations to understand their physical conditions, so as to achieve early detection, early diagnosis and early intervention of diseases. , early treatment.
According to your own situation, choose a suitable physical examination item
There are various physical examination packages, various physical examination items, and technical terms are difficult to understand, so in the complicated physical examination items, we should How to choose?
In fact, the physical examination items are generally divided into six categories, including specialist physical examination, blood test, ultrasound examination, imaging and radiation examination, gastrointestinal endoscopy and other special disease examinations. Wait. For people under the age of 35, if there is no clear clinical history, discomfort symptoms and family history of high risk of disease, a basic physical examination is generally enough. People over 35 years old, especially the middle-aged and elderly people or those with a family history of premature cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and tumors, etc., in addition to the basic physical examination items, the focus of the examination should also include cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease screening and tumor screening. It is necessary to focus on the examination of breast and gynecological related diseases. Men should include prostate and other diseases screening. For long-term smokers, it is recommended to perform low-dose chest CT examination to screen for lung diseases.
If you really don’t know which examinations should be done, you don’t have to worry, you can also formulate suitable medical examination items under the guidance of professional doctors in the medical examination center.
Source: Beijing Friendship Hospital
Editor: Guo Lei