What are the recommended medical tests by age 30?

 

By age 30, it is generally recommended that you have a complete physical examination, including routine testing for cholesterol levels.

What are the recommended medical tests by age 30?

By age 30, it is generally recommended that you have a complete physical examination, including routine testing for cholesterol levels. We also recommend routine screening for osteoporosis by getting routine bone density tests to assess your risk of developing the disease. We would also recommend that women have Pap smear examinations annually or as recommended by their physician. And if they are sexually active outside of marriage, they should be tested for AIDS at regular intervals. If you are an older adult after the age of 60, you need to make sure to get screened annually with PSA or prostate-specific antigen testing and mammograms or other breast cancer screening as well as colonoscopies starting at age 50. These are just some guidelines for what tests might be suggested at age 30.

There are a number of factors to take into account when determining what tests "by age 30", including general health, family history, and where you live.  The single most important thing is that anyone who has a positive family history for cancer or heart disease should have regular exams performed by their doctor. A woman's yearly pelvic exam is also recommended from the time she becomes sexually active so long as there are no symptoms. In addition, it's important to be evaluated for diabetes type 1 or 2 starting at 3 years old if there is a family history of Type 1A Diabetes – which can often be identified with just one test – but simple blood glucose testing may show signs before any symptoms do present themselves.