Why it is important to have regular health check-ups

  Health is 1, a happy family is 0, and a successful career is another 0. Health can make a happy family 10 times happier and a successful career 100 times more likely, but the loss of health means the loss of 1, and the remaining 0s are meaningless. From objective reasons, regular health checkups become important because: the spectrum of diseases is changing. As we all know, the incidence of some virulent infectious diseases such as cholera, plague, dysentery, malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis and other infectious diseases that once seriously endangered people’s health has dropped significantly, while the incidence of some chronic non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke and cancer has increased significantly. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Health in recent years, the top ten causes of death among urban residents in China are: malignant tumors, cerebrovascular diseases, heart diseases, respiratory diseases, injuries and poisoning, endocrine nutritional and metabolic immune diseases, digestive system diseases, genitourinary system diseases, mental diseases, and neurological diseases. Together, these top ten causes of death account for 92% of the total number of deaths. A careful analysis of the above top ten causes of death reveals that many diseases can be controlled and treated through early examination, early detection and early treatment. For example, malignant tumors can be detected at an early stage through regular health checkups, and most of them can have a better prognosis through scientific diagnosis and treatment, and early treatment can also prolong patients’ life and improve their quality of life.  Risk factors that endanger health are everywhere. At present, air pollution, water pollution, food pesticide residues and additives are more serious. We live on earth, we have to breathe every day, factory exhaust, car exhaust is always polluting our living environment; we rely on fresh water every day, examples of contaminated water sources abound. Food safety and food pesticide overload phenomenon is impossible to prevent, for example, fake milk powder, add hanging white block of flour, seepage of toxic mineral oil rice, using the driving rain to refine cooking oil (gutter no), using dichlorvos soaking salted fish, fruits and vegetables with highly toxic pesticides, and so on, these toxic and harmful substances are closely related to our daily life, into our body, threatening our health.  Unhealthy lifestyle. At the International Cardiology Conference held in Victoria, Canada, the World Society of Cardiology put forward the famous Victoria Declaration, which consists of only four sentences, namely “balanced diet, moderate exercise, smoking cessation and alcohol restriction, and psychological balance”, and considers these four sentences as the golden bridge to health. The essence of the Victoria Declaration is to promote a healthy lifestyle. But how many people can truly live up to these four phrases? It is not uncommon to find people around you and me with uncontrolled diet, excessive obesity, lack of exercise, excessive smoking and drinking, and psychological imbalance, which pose the greatest threat to health. In fact, 80% of chronic non-communicable diseases are caused by unhealthy lifestyles, and only 20% are related to genetics and other factors. 2002, the World Health Organization published the top 10 health risk factors, which are: lack of exercise, unsafe sex, high blood pressure, smoking, alcohol, drinking water pollution, environment and hygiene, iron deficiency, indoor pollution, high cholesterol and obesity. What are the risk factors for your current health? Do you have high blood pressure? Are you overweight? High blood sugar? Is your blood lipid level high? Is your heart functioning normally? Is liver function normal? Are your kidneys functioning properly? …… These questions can only be assessed by a health check-up.  Regular health checkups are the most important part of disease prevention and control. As we all know, prevention of disease is important. Preventive medicine practitioners and health economists have suggested that spending $100 on disease prevention can save nearly $1,000 in disease treatment costs. For example, hypertension and diabetes, medical practitioners called the “silent killer” and “sweet killer” respectively, early detection, treatment and control effect is very good. Early detection of hypertension patients, spend a few cents a day to control blood pressure in the ideal state, work, life is not affected, if the development of advanced, combined with other organ complications such as coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, hypertensive nephropathy, and even cerebral infarction or cerebral hemorrhage (commonly known as stroke), and then treatment, the cost of money, health care resources can be said to be huge, and some people may spend their lives with The quality of life can be imagined.  Therefore, regular health checkups are very important, for adolescents, every two years is enough, for middle-aged people, an annual checkup is necessary, for the elderly, every six months is more appropriate, if you also suffer from chronic diseases, it is more important to follow the doctor’s recommendations for regular checkups.