Getting the right screenings at the right times are some of the most important things you can do for your health. Eating right, staying active and maintaining a relationship with a primary care physician can help you get healthy and stay healthy. If you’re not up-to-date on your health screenings, then it's time for a check up with a Utica Park Clinic doctor.
Click here for an easy-to-follow chart of recommended preventive screenings based on your age and gender or see the list below.
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General wellness exam: Visits at 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18 months of age. Annual visits for ages 2-5 years, then every other year until age 18.
Vision: Kids should be screened three times in the first year, then every two years from ages 3 to 18.
Abdominal aneurysm screening: Have an ultrasound once between ages 65 and 75 if you have ever smoked.
Blood pressure: Every one to two years for age 40 and older. Annually if you are at an increased risk.
Cholesterol screening: At least every five years for age 20 and older.
Colon cancer screening: Colonoscopy by age 45 then every 10 years, or annual fecal occult blood test (FOBT) or sigmoidoscopy every five years.
Diabetes screening: Begin at age 45, then every three years. More frequently if you are at high risk.
General Wellness Exams: Every one to three years for age 19-49 depending on your personal risk factors. Annually after age 49. Includes weight, height, examination and review of preventative screening tests.
Hepatitis C screening: Once for adults born between 1945 and 1965.
HIV Screening: Adults between 18 and 65, based on risk.
Lung cancer screening criteria:
- Current smoker or former smoker who has quit within the last 15 years, and
- Age 50 to 80 years, and
- A smoking history of at least 20 pack-years (i.e., one pack per day for 20 years, two packs per day for 10 years, etc.)
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Prostate cancer screening: Begin at age 45 for African Americans and other men with higher risk and at age 50 for men with lower risk following an informed decision-making discussion with your PCP.
Skin cancer screening: Have your skin checked by a dermatologist or other health care professional during your regular physicals.
Testicular exam: Annually, include as part of each general wellness exam.
Vision: Every two to four years from ages 20-64 and every one to two years for ages 65+.
Blood pressure: Every one to two years for age 40 and older. Annually if you are at an increased risk.
Breast cancer screening: In your 20s to 30s, your health care provider should perform a breast exam every one to three years. Get a mammography every two years from ages 50 to 74. A mammography before age 50 should be done under individual context after discussing risks, benefits and harms with your health care provider. For information on breast cancer and treatment, click here.
Cervical cancer screening: Get your first Pap smear by age 21, then every three years after that. If you're 30 or older, you can get co-tested with a human papillomavirus infection (HPV) screening at least every five years. If you're sexually active and at risk, get vaginal testing for chlamydia and gonorrhea every year.
Cholesterol screening: At least every five years for age 20 and older.
Colon cancer screening: Colonoscopy by age 45 then every 10 years, or annual fecal occult blood test (FOBT) or sigmoidoscopy every five years.
Diabetes screening: Begin at age 45, then every three years. More frequently if you are at high risk.
General Wellness Exams: Every one to three years for age 19-49 depending on your personal risk factors. Annually after age 49. Includes weight, height, examination and review of preventative screening tests.
Hepatitis C screening: Once for adults born between 1945 and 1965.
HIV Screening: Adults between 18 and 65, based on risk. All pregnant women should be screened.
Lung cancer screening criteria:
- Current smoker or former smoker who has quit within the last 15 years, and
- Age 50 to 80 years, and
- A smoking history of at least 20 pack-years (i.e., one pack per day for 20 years, two packs per day for 10 years, etc.)
- Go to lungexam.com for more information.
Osteoporosis screening: Beginning at age 65, or at age 60 if risk factors are present.
Skin cancer screening: Have your skin checked by a dermatologist or other health care professional during your regular physicals.
Vision: Every two to four years from ages 20-64 and every one to two years for ages 65+.
- Tetanus, Diptheria (Td): Tdap – one dose. TD booster every 10 years.
- Influenza: one dose annually at the beginning of flu season (typically September).
- Pneumococcal: PCV13 – one dose after age 65. PPSV23 – one to two doses based on medical history.
- Measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR): one to two doses if unvaccinated, born after 1957 and no evidence of immunity.
- Meningococcal (Meningitis): one or more doses if not previously immunized, depending on risk factors and other indicators.
- Varicella (Chicken pox): Two doses four to eight weeks apart without evidence of immunity.
- Shingles: two doses after age 50
- Human papillomavirus (HPV): women ages 18-26 if not previously immunized. For men ages 18-21. Two to three doses.
- Hepatitis A: two doses if not previously immunized if requested or at risk.
- Hepatitis B: three doses if not previously immunized.
- Haemophilus influenza, type B: one or three doses if not previously immunized if you have asplenia, sickle cell anemia, stem cell transplant and other risk factors.