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Did you know………..
That your lifestyle or even family history can put you at risk of developing an ongoing health problem?
A health check in your mid- to late 40s can assist you in making the necessary lifestyle changes to prevent or delay the onset of chronic disease. The health check involves taking your history, noting your current health issues and risk factors as well as looking at your family history of chronic disease. The health check will look at lifestyle risk factors such as smoking, nutrition and physical inactivity, as well as biomedical risk factors such as blood pressure, weight, cholesterol, urinalysis and other examinations considered necessary by the GP.
Once the health assessment has been completed, the GP will then provide information and advice on the strategies you can use to achieve lifestyle and behaviour changes. By checking your lifestyle for health risks, you receive personalised advice on how to reduce your risk of illness by making some healthy changes, providing you with practical advice to help you improve your health, and putting you in touch with expert advice, information and support.
If the health check reveals that you have the early warning signs of Type 2 Diabetes, then your GP can refer you to the Rockingham Kwinana Division of General Practice Living Well program. Living Well incorporates a c group of healthy lifestyle, prevention and management programs; our staff will direct you into the most appropriate program.
Overall, this health check aims to find, prevent and lessen the effect of disease by giving GPs the opportunity to look at your lifestyle and for some health problems. Getting in early can have a big impact later on.
Ask your GP for more information on the 45-49 year old health check.
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