To understand the new smart monitors and other tech health professional devices, we should look at Silicon Valley and the latest generation of quantitative exercise.
The Apple Watch logs workouts, tracks our activity throughout the day, evaluates how long we stand up, and reminds us to get up and walk around if we’ve been sitting for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s phrase “Sitting is the new factor! ” quote by Tim Cook.
Regularly assessing risk factors for various medical conditions, screening for cancer and other diseases, and evaluating your lifestyle habits can help you stay healthy.
It’s better to prevent disease than to have to treat it.
How often should adults be examined?
The timing of medical checkups for adults depends on the situation:
1. younger and healthy people can have a medical checkup once every two years: the medical checkup aims at early detection and treatment of abnormalities in the body.
2. once a year for chronic diseases or older adults: the physical examination can observe the development of the disease or physical condition.
3. Physical examination includes a number of items: such as blood routine, liver and kidney functions, etc., which can check whether there are chronic diseases. Healthy living habits should be maintained in general.
Men and women usually receive the following screenings:
- high blood pressure
- Obesity, based on your body mass index
- Tobacco use
- Alcohol and drug abuse
- Clinical Depression
- HIV screening of adults aged 15-65 years and any at-risk groups
- Hepatitis C in anyone born between 1945 and 1965
- Type 2 diabetes, for anyone with risk factors or family history
- Colorectal cancer starting at age 50
- Lung Cancer with Annual Low-Dose CT Scan for Adults Aged 55 to 80 Years Who Currently Smoke or Have Smoked in the Past 15 Years