Why preventive check-ups pay for themselves
Dr. Liam Chen, Internal Medicine · 5 min read
Preventive care is the rare area of medicine where doing a little, regularly, dramatically reduces the chance of needing a lot, urgently.
An annual baseline — blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, BMI — gives your clinician a trend line, and trends reveal problems long before any single reading would alarm you.
For most healthy adults, a yearly screening package is enough. Those with a family history may need more targeted tests, which is exactly the conversation a check-up is for.
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