Check Blood Important for Men

Jakarta, One of the most important health check is a check of blood. For men there are at least six major blood checks should not be missed.

Blood can menungungkapkan important details about the conditions that occur in a person's body, therefore sometimes a person can know the disorder or disease in the body through blood tests.

As quoted from Menshealth, Sunday (14/11/2010) there are 6 blood tests should be done by men, namely:

Check complete blood
David Perkins, MD, a specialist in internal medicine in St. Davids, Pennsylvania tells us by doing a complete blood check unknown number of red blood cells, white blood cells, blood platelets, the proportion of red blood cells in total blood volume and hemoglobin concentration measurement. With a complete blood check can be known signal from anemia and other blood disorders.

Check blood sugar levels
This blood test can be a tracer for disturbances of type 2 diabetes, for type 2 diabetes was conducted before and after fasting. If you get a high score on one examination, it is advisable to perform oral glucose tolerance test (oral glucose-tolerance test / OGTT). This is important because diabetes can cause complications in almost all organs of the body.

Check to determine levels of blood fats
In these blood tests to know the amount of good cholesterol (HDL), bad cholesterol / LDL (should be below 130 mg / dl of blood) and triglyceride (preferably less than 150 mg / dl blood). If you have risk factors for cardiovascular disease, family history of hypertension or smoking, then LDLnya levels should be below 100 mg / dl blood.

Check blood as markers of inflammation
Inflammation in arteries can be traced by examining the concentration of C-reactive protein (CRP) in the blood. If the levels of CRP and total cholesterol is high, then greater risk of heart attack. This examination is very sensitive to all kinds of inflammation, for it should be done at least twice a month away and taken the average value.

Check blood for prostate examination
Impaired prostate is one of the dreaded disease by men. Therefore examination of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) can be early detection, if the value is high possibility refers to benign prostate enlargement or bacterial infection known as prostatitis. Generally this test is recommended at age 40 or 50 years.

Check blood for thyroid examination
Although thyroid disorders are more prevalent in women, but that does not mean the man free from this disease. Levels of stress and also the lack of sleep can be a ringleader of Thyroid disorders. Therefore do blood tests for thyroid disorders both bipotiroid or hyperthyroidism.

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