Health update

[philmophlegm]

Everyone else does it, so for the first time ever, here is a post about my health! I had a medical for work on Monday, and they sent through the report yesterday.



I am 37 years old, 5'6" and 12 stones 10 pounds. I have been treated for epilepsy since I was 25.

I have a "fairly healthy lifestyle".

My diet is an area "where improvements could be made". "...high in animal fat with a lot of cheese". Yup.

Cholesterol / HDL ratio is in "the 2 times average risk range" mostly because I have a low level of HDL cholesterol.

BMI 28.7 (much the same as two years ago).
Body fat % 15.1 (down from 20.4 two years ago - so I'm doing something right!)
Waist-to-hip ratio 0.9 (improved slightly from 2008)
Nuffield Body Composition Index -1 (that's better than the recommended score - gotta be happy with that!)

Hydration level 68% (up significantly from 2008 - more junior staff in the office to bring me drinks all day...)

Blood pressure 122/84 (normal)

Cardiovascular risk score (Framingham method) 4% risk of cardiovascular event in next ten years. (Normal)

Lung function:
FVC 118% of predicted score (up from 110 two years ago)
FEV1 107% of predicted score
PEF 135% of predicted score
(which I think means I have healthier than average lungs).

Far vision without correction
Left eye B1
Right eye B1 (both down from A1 in 2008)

Near vision without correction
Left eye A1
Right eye A1

Haematology
HGB, WBC, RBC, HCT, MCV, MCH, MCHC, RDW, PLT (no idea what any of these mean, but they were all "within the reference range").

Clinical chemistry
UREA, CREA, ALB, PROT, BILI, ALK, AST, GGT, ALT, CA, CACO, GLU, HDL, TRIG all within reference range (HDL only just)
UA, CHOL, LDL, TCHR all higher than recopmmended norm.

Urine normal.

Posture score 3 - functional (improved from 2 in 2008).
Upright posture 3
Postural flexion 2
Postural skill 3

Resilience index (a measurement of heart rate variability)
1.5 sympathetic
0.0 parasympathetic

Current level of physical fitness 7.3 (at the top end of the normal zone, close to the 'athletic zone' - quite chuffed by that.)

Antioxidants
Just like two years ago, the clever antioxidant scanning machine couldn't get a reading off me. This "almost never happens", and usually only happens with builders etc with very calloused hands (certainly not like mine). Best explanation: I have "exceptionally luminescent skin".

Comments

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

I didn't realise I was taller than you! But you are certainly taller than Charles. :-)

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Most worrying of all was that I was 1cm shorter than in 2008. Then random pointed out to me that you lose height over the course of the day and I remembered that while this year's medical was at 2.45pm, last year's was at 10.00am.

Good job - I thought I was losing height at the rate of 0.5cm a year!

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

That would indeed have been scary!

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

I understand that gravity compresses the spine over the day. It explains why I've been measured at 5'10", 5'10 1/4" & 5'10 1/2". I'd be interested to try measuring myself both before and after I've had my spine adjusted by the chiropractor.

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

I was stunned the one time I measured in at 5'3", because it was 9am.