Question

What screening interventions are used for adults at risk for chronic diseases?

Answer 1

Answer :

Screening interventions are used for adults at risk for chronic diseases follows :

Diabetes mellitus : most of adults with diabetes, do not show any symptoms. As such, the only way to screen for diabetes is to do fasting blood test to measure the amount of sugar in boold. If the blood test shows mildly high levels of sugar, a condition termed pre- diabetes.

Hypertension :

Adults with hypertension do not experience any symptoms, hence the disease is often called silent killer. Screening for hypertension is done for reducing the risk.

Hyperlipidaemia :

people with hyperlipidaemia have a higher risk of heart attack, stroke. Most of adults with hyperlipidaemia do not display any symptoms.the only way to screen for it is by doing a fasting blood test. Patient can lower the cholestrol by losing weight, by low fat diet.

Fatty liver :

screening is very impoertant to diagnose amd treat fatty liver early in adults to prevent cirrhosis. Most of adults with fatty liver have no symptoms. And there is no medication or surgery to treat fatty liver. Instead of avoid alcohol comsumption and management of cholestrol.

Breast cancer :

early breast cancers may be asymptomatic and can only be picked by mammogram. Early screening is important in women to find out the risk factors.

colorectal cancer :

screening should begin at an earlier age, most effective screening test is colonoscopy.