TV presenter backs health check-up calls

[Northerner]

THOSE aged over 40 are being encouraged to take advantage of a free health check.

The NHS checks are aimed at helping residents lower their risk of developing the likes of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, kidney disease and some forms of dementia.

Earlier this week Britain?s largest ever health screening for preventable conditions was promoted by presenter Julia Bradbury on BBC show Long Live Britain.

http://www.malverngazette.co.uk/news/10589656.TV_presenter_backs_health_check_up_calls/

 

[trophywench]

Oooh yes, my husband has to have these now. You get an A1c, Total Chol/HDL and U &E.

Then you see a nurse who concludes her BP monitor isn't working because yours is too low for a man of your age, so obviously this is her machinery, not because you happen to have low BP, and she weighs and measures you.

Then the doctor tells you that you don't have diabetes, your kidneys are fine and that you obviously eat very little cheese, as your Trigs are perfect. (cos last years it was a full fasting lipids panel, and he eats rather a lot of cheese as it happens) Then tells you that you are gonna die soon anyway cos you smoke, so it's automatic. Not that any of them listen to your heart or chest, of course ......

Yrs etc

Cynical Wife,
bedworth