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

[tovaglia.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly!

[lanciatore.livejournal.com]

I think that's being a bit ungenerous to longitudinal studies! It's not quite as simple as PP's analogy! And most scientists (and people conduction research on human nurition) are aware that correlation does not equal causation. But that never gets past the sub-editors on the national papers.

I think the benefits of fruit/veg in the diet are several and none have anything to do with antioxidants (so unanimity in the lanciatore/tovaglia household there!) -

1) vitamins that are not available from animal sources eg vitamins E & K
2) provides fibre which is beneficial for several reasons
3) v low in fat (if any at all) and it's unsaturated

anyway at least JOLF gives you a thorough checking over. I just get a lung function test once per year.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

The only thing I get through work is my eye tests paid for (and new glasses if I need them solely for VDU use).

However, my PJS does mean that I get biennial internal scans of all sorts, plus a standing instruction to go to the doctor with any "bump, lump, mass or oddity".