In recent years, physical examinations have found diseases: hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, arrhythmia, lung cancer, thyroid cancer, fatty liver, etc. Early detection and early control can curb these diseases in the bud so as not to cause great disasters.
Everyone is more entangled in whether it is necessary for them to have a medical examination. Many people say that it is a waste of money without a medical examination. Some people just finished physical examination, and a few months later, they had a heart attack, cerebral infarction and lung cancer. ...
In fact, physical examination can find some problems, but not all of them, that's for sure. You can't deny the physical examination just because it doesn't find some hidden problems.
Physical examination has advantages, but also limitations.
What's the harm of not having a medical examination?
Without physical examination, many people can't find hyperlipidemia and diabetes. At present, there are 290 million patients with cardiovascular diseases in China. Most of them were not found in the early stage, and they were not controlled in the early stage, and they were allowed to damage blood vessels until the blood vessels narrowed.
For example, there are currently 245 million hypertensive patients in China, and 49% of them don't know that they are hypertensive.
Without physical examination, many people can't find thyroid problems, fatty liver, pulmonary nodules, arrhythmia, lung cancer, liver disease, kidney disease, anemia and so on at an early stage. This is the danger of not having a medical examination.
Who needs their own physical examination every year?
High-risk groups, such as people with cardiovascular and cancer genes, people who smoke and drink a lot, obese people, people who have found one of the three highs, people who cough repeatedly, men over 40 years old and postmenopausal women, it is best for these people to have a physical examination. Although the physical examination needs to cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars, on the one hand, we have no problems after the examination, and we are more assured and happier; On the one hand, minor problems should be found early, treated early and treated early to prevent the disease from getting worse.
However, physical examination does have certain limitations. For example, physical examination is difficult to find and accurately predict myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction, but even if you go to the hospital for a comprehensive examination, it is difficult to accurately predict when these diseases will occur. Clinically, it is true that some people find out major diseases soon after physical examination, but as mentioned above, this is a minority after all.
Hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, fatty liver, anemia, partial infection, nephropathy, liver disease, arrhythmia, partial myocardial ischemia, and even some tumors can be detected through routine physical examination.
Therefore, those who have the conditions for physical examination, especially those with high-risk factors, should have regular physical examinations!