Prostate Screen

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic condition characterized by high blood glucose levels. The Diabetes Health panel includes measurement of glucose and HbA1c levels, which are useful for diagnosis and monitoring of diabetes.

Digestive disorders significantly affect quality of life through chronic symptoms including abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, and unpredictable bowel habits, while also potentially causing nutritional deficiencies, unintended weight loss, anemia, and systemic complications affecting other organs if left untreated. Early detection enables targeted treatment approaches before permanent damage develops and complications occur.

A Full Blood Count (FBC), also called Complete Blood Count (CBC), is one of the most comprehensive and frequently ordered blood tests, providing detailed information about the three main types of blood cells circulating in your body. Red blood cells carry oxygen to tissues, white blood cells fight infections and disease, and platelets enable blood clotting to stop bleeding. This panel measures not just the quantity of these cells, but also their size, shape, maturity, and hemoglobin content, revealing critical information about your bone marrow function, oxygen-carrying capacity, immune system status, and bleeding risk.

Personal health measurements encompass fundamental physical parameters that provide crucial insights into your overall health status and disease risk. These measurements include vital signs such as pulse and blood pressure, anthropometric measurements like height, weight, waist and hip circumference, and calculated indices including Body Mass Index (BMI) and waist-to-hip ratio.

Cardiovascular health markers provide a comprehensive assessment of your heart disease and stroke risk by measuring various cholesterol particles, inflammatory markers, cardiac enzymes, and other substances that affect your cardiovascular system. This comprehensive panel includes total cholesterol, HDL ("good" cholesterol that protects arteries), LDL ("bad" cholesterol that clogs arteries), triglycerides, and advanced markers like apolipoproteins, lipoprotein(a), homocysteine, and high-sensitivity CRP. These biomarkers evaluate your risk of atherosclerosis (plaque buildup in arteries), inflammation levels, blood clot formation tendency, and can detect actual heart muscle damage. Heart disease remains the leading cause of death globally, but most cardiovascular events are preventable through early detection of risk factors and lifestyle modifications guided by these biomarkers.

Infection and inflammation markers detect active infections, identify autoimmune conditions where the immune system attacks your own tissues, and measure chronic inflammatory states that significantly increase risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. Key biomarkers include C-reactive protein and ESR (general inflammation markers that rise with almost any inflammatory process), white blood cell count and differential (detecting infections and blood disorders), immunoglobulins (measuring antibody production), complement proteins (components of the immune system), and specific antibodies like antistreptolysin O or ASO (indicating recent strep infection).

Kidney function tests evaluate how effectively your kidneys filter waste products from blood, maintain proper electrolyte balance, regulate blood pressure, and produce hormones that control red blood cell production. Core markers include creatinine (a waste product from muscle metabolism), estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate or eGFR (calculated measure of kidney filtering efficiency), blood urea nitrogen or BUN (another waste product), and electrolytes including sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, and phosphate. Additional specialized markers like cystatin C and uric acid provide supplementary information about kidney function and risk of kidney stone formation.

Liver function tests assess your liver's ability to perform its over 500 essential functions including producing proteins for blood clotting, filtering toxins and waste products, metabolizing medications and alcohol, regulating blood sugar between meals, storing vitamins and minerals, and producing bile for fat digestion. Key enzymes include ALT and AST which leak from damaged liver cells, alkaline phosphatase or ALP indicating bile duct problems, and GGT which is particularly sensitive to alcohol damage.

These simple body measurements give useful context for every health assessment, helping us understand body composition, cardiovascular risk, and changes over time.