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Comprehensive Health Check-Up Guidelines for Different Age Groups

This article explores the evolving goals of health check-ups, emphasizing health promotion, risk identification, and disease detection. It highlights tailored recommendations for patients like Lucia, a 17-year-old senior, and Elizabeth, a 36-year-old bartender, providing insights into Pap smears, STI tests, and preventive measures. The guidelines also cover colon cancer screenings, cholesterol assessments, and mammography for older adults. The content focuses on age-specific and gender-specific health needs, ensuring informed decisions on preventive healthcare.

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Comprehensive Health Check-Up Guidelines for Different Age Groups

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  1. Rethinking the Check-up

  2. Goals of the Check-up Promote health Identify risk factors Detect disease

  3. Where do we get our information?

  4. USPSTF Grades

  5. Lucia 17 years old High school senior

  6. First priority: complete history

  7. Physical exam: which elements are needed?

  8. Does Lucia need a pelvic exam?Does she need a Pap smear?

  9. Does Lucia need STI tests?

  10. What about primary prevention? Birth control Emergency contraception Immunizations

  11. HPV immunization Gardasil Cervarix

  12. Summary: what Lucia needs Complete history Depression screening Body mass index Urine gonorrhea/chlamydia HIV test RPR Immunizations Contraception counselling Folic acid supplement

  13. Elizabeth 36-year-old bartender Smokes ½ pack per day “Check me for everything!”

  14. Does Elizabeth need a Pap smear?

  15. How often do women need a Pap smear? ACOG: • Every 2 years (age 21-29) • Every 3 years (age 30+) ACS: • Every 2 years if liquid-based test (under age 30) • Every 2-3 years after 3 normal results in a row OR every 3 years with HPV typing (age 30+) USPSTF: • At least every 3 years

  16. Bimanual exam

  17. Breast self-exam?

  18. Smoking cessation

  19. What about “routine blood tests?”

  20. Sam 53-year-old “I need this form filled out for work”

  21. Sam’s complete history reveals…

  22. “Oh, and I need this form filled out.”

  23. Colon Cancer Screening • Fecal occult blood testing • Flexible sigmoidoscopy • Colonoscopy

  24. Prostate Cancer Screening?

  25. Lipid Screening and CHD prevention

  26. ASPIRIN: 10-year CHD risk levels at which benefit of treatment outweighs risk CHD = coronary heart disease.

  27. Summary for Sam Complete history Body mass index Blood pressure HDL and total cholesterol Colon cancer screening

  28. Davida 52 years old Healthy Non-smoker One male sexual partner

  29. Mammography • USPSTF: Every 2 years age 50-74 “B” recommendation ACOG: Every 2 years age 40-49 Every year age 50+ ACS: Every year age 40+

  30. “A” Recommendations

  31. “B” Recommendations

  32. What about Screening for Diabetes?

  33. “C” Recommendations Depression – when staff supports NOT in place HIV – for those NOT at increased risk Lipids – for women without CHD risk factors Osteoporosis – for women < age 60 or women age 60- 64 NOT at increased risk

  34. “D” Recommendations • Aspirin for women < age 55 (& for men < age 45) • Carotid Artery Stenosis screening • Cervical Cancer screening in women who have had a hysterectomy • Genital Herpes (without symptoms) • Hepatitis B and C (without symptoms) • Gonorrhea (low risk) • EKG, stress test (low risk) • Ovarian Cancer

  35. Blair New to your practice 77-year-old grandmother Here for “my yearly Pap”

  36. When should we stopcervical cancer screening? ACS Age 70 in women who have had 3 normal pap smears in the past 10 years USPSTF Age 65 – “if they have had adequate recent screening with normal Pap smears and are not otherwise at high risk for cervical cancer” ACOG Age 65-70 in women who have had 3 normal pap smears in the past 10 years

  37. Osteoporosis Screening

  38. Breast Cancer Screening

  39. “D” Recommendations DO NOT SCREEN FOR: • Scoliosis • Herpes simplex virus • Hep B, Hep C, Gonorrhea, Syphilis with low risk • AAA in women, or in men who haven’t smoked • Ovarian Cancer • Cervical Cancer after Benign Hysterectomy • Asymptomatic bacteriuria or bladder cancer • CHD with low risk (<5-10% 10-year risk) and…

  40. “D” Recommendations, cont. • Carotid artery stenosis • Beta-carotene supplementation • Testicular cancer • Prostate cancer age > 75 • Bladder cancer • COPD • Colorectal cancer age > 85 • Lead in asymptomatic pregnant women

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