Basic Wellness Assessment

Most people in Gujranwala get tested reactively. Something hurts, a doctor writes a prescription, a test gets done. The Basic Wellness Assessment flips that. It is the annual check for someone who feels fine and would like to keep it that way.

This is the entry-level annual screening. It suits adults in their twenties and thirties with no known health conditions, anyone who has never had a baseline set of results on record, people with a family history of diabetes or heart disease who want early monitoring, and employees needing a straightforward general health check.

A single normal result is mildly reassuring. Five years of results is genuinely useful, because it shows direction. Creatinine drifting upward within the normal range across three annual checks tells a doctor something that one isolated "normal" never could. The value of the first test is largely that it makes the second one meaningful.

If you are over 40, managing diabetes or high blood pressure, or have symptoms you want investigated, the Essential or Comprehensive Profile is the better fit.

• Fast for 9 to 12 hours. Nothing to eat during that window.
• Plain water only during the fast. Tea, coffee with milk, juice and soft drinks all break the fast and will affect your lipid and sugar results.
• Book the earliest morning slot available. Fasting overnight is far easier than fasting through a working day.
• Eat normally the day before. Do not skip dinner or eat unusually lightly.
• Avoid a heavy, oily meal the night before, which will show up in your triglycerides.
• Continue prescribed medicines unless your doctor has said otherwise, and tell us what you take.
• Ask for a urine container when you book. A mid-stream sample is what is needed.
• Bring previous reports if you have them, so results can be compared.