CHECK UP

In hospitals and other health care facilities, the unit that performs whole-body health examinations for the purpose of routine health checks, prevention of possible diseases and identification of persons at risk of disease is called a check-up.

Diseases within the scope of the check-up unit are:

• Diseases of the metabolism
• Cardiovascular diseases
• Kidney diseases
• Brain – vascular diseases
• Nervous diseases
• Diseases of the thyroid gland
• Some blood diseases like anaemia and vitamin deficiency
• Cholesterol
• Diabetes
• Heart and valve diseases
• Shortness of breath
• Rheumatism
• Liver disease due to hepatitis virus
• Cancer (lung, colon, liver, pancreas, bladder, prostate, breast, uterus and cervix)
• Osteoclasis
• Liver diseases
• Spleen diseases
• Diseases of the gallbladder
• Diseases of the pancreas
• Bone diseases
• Eye diseases