Screening - Lifestyle Diseases

Lifestyle diseases such as diabetes or high blood pressure are escalating at breakneck speed and it would only be prudent on anyone’s part to be vigilant by screening regularly for these diseases.

High blood pressure can even cause other ailments such as kidney damage. Regular health monitoring can initiate early management; sometimes the disease can even be controlled without medications.

In this article we attempt to take a look at some of the lifestyle diseases and the types of screening tests that are suitable for each of them:–

Atherosclerosis / Heart Diseases: Atherosclerosis is the thickening of the arteries that may lead to heart attack. Those at risk, such as the obese, the smokers, the hypertensive and the diabetics, may well benefit from routine cardiac check ups including thread mill, ECHO and MRI.

Type 2 diabetes: Simple blood tests taken on an empty stomach and also after meals. Urine tests may also help to detect type 2 diabetes.