Promoting Healthy Lifestyles

Screening Maneuvers

• Risk assessment every 1-2 years; Review medications
• Height and weight every 1-2 years
• Blood pressure every 1-2 years
• Clinical breast exam (yearly)
• Total cholesterol and HDL-cholesterol (every 5 years for both men and women) to age 75
• Papanicolaou smear (may be performed at the mutual consent of the patient and provider after age 65)
• Mammograms (annually until age 75; may be performed at the mutual consent of the patient and provider after age 75)
• Colon cancer screening (frequency of screening is dependent on the screening test used; refer to the National Guideline Clearinghouse [NGC] summary of the ICSI guideline Colorectal Cancer Screening for more information.)
• Objective visual acuity testing (after age 74); Subjective hearing testing (after age 74)
• Osteoporosis screening (review risk factors and order bone mineral density [BMD] test if indicated)

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