Basic Health Screening
The Basic Health Screening gives a patient the peace of mind to know if they are healthy or if they need further lab work done. There are three tests done during the health screening; these tests are the complete blood count, the Comprehensive Metabolic Panel, and the urinalysis test. These tests will recommend for further analysis.
The Essential Health Screen $89 - CBC (w diff), CMP, Urinalysis and Lipid Profile (HDL, LDL + Triglycerides)
Basic Health Screen $59 - Includes a CBC (w diff), CMP, and a Urinalysis
Cholesterol Test (Lipid Profile) $29 - HDL, LDL, Total Cholesterol + Triglycerides
Cholesterol and Heart Blood Screening
Some risk factors for heart disease are smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes, and a family history will effect if a patient will get heart disease. Heart disease is very preventable with some lifestyle changes. Have a discussion with your doctor about the risk factors and what the appropriate testing would be to help live longer. Lipid Profile for cholesterol, C - reactive protein, NMR Lipoprofile, the VAP Cholesterol Test, and Homocysteine blood tests are the tests that are performed to look for heart disease.
Prostate Testing
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men, next to skin cancer. The National Cancer Institute states that men of the age of 65 are 63 percent more likely to have prostate cancer. Having the information will help a patient decide if that test needs to be performed annually, biannually, or quarterly.
Thyroid Testing
There are many different types of symptoms for either hyper or hypothyroidism. There are multiple types of tests that will help determine and establish a treatment. A thyroids job is to secret the hormones into the blood stream. When this goes wrong there are many symptoms to let a patient know that something is not right with the body. After the patient figures it out they go and get the Thyroid Function Test or a Thyroid Profile.
Liver Testing
The liver can be tested to make sure that there is no damage to done or little damage to the liver. The liver can make proteins, store food energy, and can enable the removal of toxins. Health Testing Center will do a liver test called the Liver Function Test which is a type of blood test. The blood test results will let a patient know what types of treatments need to be done in order for the liver to get healthy again.
Cancer Testing
In the year 2007, the Nation Cancer Society released the number 7.6 million. This number was the total of deaths that year from cancer. Cancer is a very serious and deadly disease, but if caught in the early stages will be able to go into remission. Multiple Cancer Screening tests can be done at the Health Testing Centers. The types of tests that would be done range from 80-500 dollars; the 500 being all the different Cancer Screenings combined into one test. The blood tests are Carcinoembryonic Antigen, Cancer Antigen 19-9, Cancer Antigen 27.29, Cancer Antigen 125, and Alpha-Fetoprotein. Early detection can help save a life.
Hormone Testing
Many types of hormone tests are out there, at Health Testing Centers we test for multiple hormone levels. In the modern time, the aging process is now treated as a disease. To help treat this disease there is anti-aging medicine. The lab tests that are offered at Health Testing Centers are DHEA, Testosterone, Human Growth Hormone, and IGF-1. Finding out the levels of a person’s hormones can determine what kind of replacement therapy is needed.
Blood Testing Lab Locations in Largo, FL
Health Testing Centers have several locations in the City, Largo, FL area that are set up for patient convenience. When the patient visits healthtestcenters.com, he may choose to purchase any of the available blood tests. When he makes his choice, he will be emailed a requisition form to be taken with him to a LabCorp location in the Mesa area. When the results are in, they will be emailed to the patient within 24-48 hours. HIPAA compliant secure email is used for safety and privacy.
For the same low price charged by other testing centers for a single blood test, Health Testing Centers offers its Essential Health screening. This is a panel of tests that would normally be ordered by a doctor. If the patient is interested in a cholesterol and heart health screening, the testing center will perform a BNP, coenzyme Q 10 total, C-reactive protein, heart health screening levels I and II, homocysteine, lipid profile, NMR lipid profile, and statin check-up. This panel of tests can be brought to your doctor so he can evaluate your heart health. The convenient locations of the Mesa testing centers will allow for the patient to have tests in hand on his first visit to the doctor which will not only save time, but money as well.
The blood work ordering process is simple. The patient can visit the easily navigated website and choose a test panel to be performed. After he has purchased the test, a requisition form will be emailed to him usually within one hour. He will then make an appointment with one of the several LabCorp facilities in the Mesa area online. In an effort to save the patient time, it is the Health Testing Centers’ goal to be able to schedule the appointment for the same day in which it was requested. After the appointment has been scheduled, the patient will then take their requisition form in to the testing center and have the appropriate test performed. Depending on the test that was performed, the results are typically emailed to the patient within 1 to 2 days.
For general information about blood testing you can visit Lab Tests Online or WebMd.