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Our objective is to maintain and improve your overall health through prevention, learning and by involving you in your own care. Below, you will find useful links as well as recommended important screening tests.
Chronic conditions :
Diet and nutrition
Other Links
Important recommended screenings
Important recommended screenings – please discuss these with your doctor (see table below)
| WOMEN |
MEN |
| Test |
Age |
Test |
Age |
| Cholesterol every 1 to 3 years* |
50 years old |
Cholesterol every 1 to 3 years* |
40 years old |
| Diabetes every 3 years* |
40 years old |
Diabetes every 3 years* |
40 years old |
| Mammogram every 1 to 2 years** |
50 years old |
Prostate exam every year |
50 years old |
| Colon cancer screening every 2 to 5 years** |
50 years old |
Colon cancer screening every 2 to 5 years ** |
50 years old |
| Pap Test every year *** |
18 years old or sexually active |
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| Osteoporosis every 1-3 years**** |
65 years old |
Osteoporosis every 1-3 years**** |
65 years old |
*An earlier screening age may be indicated if you have risk factors such as family history, abdominal obesity, known heart disease, hypertension or if you are a smoker.
** An earlier screening age may be indicated if you have a family history.
***Every year unless your doctor suggests otherwise.
****An earlier screening age may be indicated if you have a family history, if you are a smoker, if you suffer from rheumatoid arthritis or if you have a history of hypothyroidism, if you have a short stature or if you consume a great deal of caffeine or alcohol.
Why take a Pap test?
Recommended immunizations :
- Vaccination for Pneumonia (pneumococcus): after 65 years of age or earlier if you have risk factors such as diabetes, heart, pulmonary or kidney disease.
- Flu shot against Influenza: each year
- Vaccination for Tetanus and Diphtheria (Td) : every 10 years
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