Prevention: a key to good health and longevity

Why prevention?

A number of serious diseases can be prevented. Early detection of colon cancer, breast cancer, prostata cancer, cervical cancer, atherosclerosis and some inherited predispositions can avert serious illness. A health check at SUNCE IHC can detect existing conditions and identify your individual risk factors in order to develop a preventive strategy tailored to your specific needs. Preventive services offered in our clinics include comprehensive and non invasive check-ups, usually performed in one day. Our check-up programmes can detect risks for the following diseases: • Stroke • Atherosclerosis • Diabetes • High blood pressure • Heart attack • Breast cancer • Cervical cancer • Colon cancer • Prostate cancer • Lung cancer

What does a check up include?

After a detailed discussion with one of our doctors, a physical examination, comprehensive blood tests, ECG, eye test, abdominal ultrasound and gynaecological examination for women, are conducted, and possibly other tests, according to your particular risk profile assessed during the intake procedure. Most further tests can be arranged quickly and conveniently within our clinics. This check-up aims to diagnose existing conditions and identify the individual key risk factors. It enables us to develop a strategy for the prevention of serious diseases and disorders tailored to your specific needs and lifestyle.

The basic health check may entail: • One-to-one consultation • Full physical examination • Basic observations and vital signs • Eye test • Lung function test • Resting ECG

• Stress ECG • Abdominal ultrasound • Blood tests • Urine test • Faecal occult blood test (FOBT) • Concluding consultation and risk analysis • Further investigation and treatment

Specialized procedures for cardiovascular health risks detection and assessment

If your medical history, individual risk profile or other factors require so, your SUNCE IHC physician can expand the compact check-up programme to include other examinations from our spectrum of services, such as: • CD – Carotid doppler • CACS - Cardiac calcium score • MSCT coronary angiography