MUMBAI: It would seem prudent to rush for an annual health check-up in a country where every third adult has hypertension and heart attacks occur a decade earlier than they do in Westerners. Leave aside the fact that they don't contribute to picking up diseases, health checks bring about incidental detection that will lead to further huge battery of investigations." People refuse to accept that asymptomatic stones don't need to be treat ed. he asked.Dr Srinath Reddy who heads the Public Health Foundation of India , said it has been repeatedly proved that the so-called executive checks are necessarily not beneficial.So what is the best health checkup? It is best to have "opportunistic checks'' while visiting the doctor, said doctors.People should get themselves assessed while visiting their doctor.

Source: Times of India September 17, 2016 22:33 UTC