At a Glance
Package: Advanced Full Body Checkup for Men. Tests: 94 parameters, 17 components. Price: From 1899. Fasting: 10 hours. Sample: Blood and urine, single draw. Reports: 24 hours, digital. Home collection: Free across Delhi. Lab: NABL-accredited. Two different men book this: one in his thirties, tired for months, wondering if testosterone explains it, and one past fifty, told to get his prostate checked. Both get the same 17 components — the 14-component Comprehensive Full Body Checkup with CRP & RA Factor plus Testosterone Total, Prostate Specific Antigen - PSA (Total) and Carcino Embryonic Antigen (CEA). The tier above, the Comprehensive Health Checkup for Men, adds exactly three pancreatic tests and nothing else, so with no pancreatic reason to test, book this one. The CRP here is qualitative: positive or negative, no figure. For a CRP value you can follow over time, the Comprehensive Full Body Checkup with CRP & RA Factor reports it quantitatively in mg/L and costs less. ## Testosterone Total Testosterone Total screens for hypogonadism — testosterone below the normal range, showing up as months of fatigue, low libido, reduced muscle mass, low mood and poor concentration. Timing decides whether the number means anything: testosterone peaks in the early morning, so the sample belongs in a 7 to 10 AM slot, and an afternoon draw can read low in a normal man. One low value is not a diagnosis — the next step is a repeat morning sample with free testosterone or Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG), since most testosterone is SHBG-bound and SHBG shifts with obesity and thyroid or liver disease. LH and FSH, which separate testicular from pituitary causes, are not included. ## What PSA and CEA can and cannot tell you Both are tumour markers — screening aids a doctor reads alongside symptoms, examination and, where needed, imaging. A raised value has many non-cancerous causes; a normal value does not exclude cancer. Prostate Specific Antigen - PSA (Total) is made by prostate tissue generally, not by prostate cancer specifically. It climbs with benign prostatic hyperplasia — the age-related enlargement behind a weak urinary stream — with prostatitis and urinary infection, and after a long cycle ride or recent ejaculation. A PSA inside range does not rule prostate cancer out. A raised figure means a urologist's review: a retest after clearing infection, free-to-total PSA or MRI. Carcino Embryonic Antigen (CEA) mainly follows colorectal cancer already diagnosed rather than finds it. Smokers carry higher baselines as a rule, and CEA also rises in inflammatory bowel disease, pancreatitis and cirrhosis. A normal CEA does not exclude bowel cancer; colonoscopy screens for that, and it is not here. ## Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination A qualified pathologist spreads a slide from your sample, reads it under a microscope and reports five findings: Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets, Hemoparasites and a written Impression. An analyser says haemoglobin is low; the slide says why — small pale cells (iron deficiency), large cells (B12 or folate deficiency), sickle-shaped cells (sickle cell disease). The pathologist also catches blast cells signalling possible leukaemia, and clumped platelets an analyser reports as a dangerously low count. The Hemoparasites line looks directly for malarial parasites inside red cells — it earns its place across Delhi NCR, where malaria and dengue return each monsoon. Being manual pathologist time, it is the first line item a cheaper package drops. ## Booking this in Delhi Delhi's working men span a wide age range: public-sector staff, Metro commuters with nine sedentary hours and a long journey either side, traders on their feet all day eating at no fixed time. One visit covers a 34-year-old and his 61-year-old father. ## The Other 13 Components CBC with ESR (21): Anaemia, infection, inflammation. Liver Function (12): SGOT/SGPT plus GGT, the earliest alcohol marker; NAFLD affects 30–40% of urban Indian adults (Duseja et al., Indian J Gastroenterol, 2022). Kidney Function (12): Creatinine and GFR stage kidney disease; uric acid screens gout. Lipid Profile (9): Non-HDL cholesterol predicts risk better than LDL alone (AHA/ACC, 2018). Complete Urine Analysis (17): Proteinuria, glycosuria, infection — not microalbuminuria, so early diabetic kidney damage needs a separate microalbumin/ACR test. Blood Glucose Fasting (1) and HbA1c (2): Under 100 mg/dL normal, 100–125 prediabetes, 126+ diabetes (ADA, 2024); 101 million Indian adults have diabetes (ICMR-INDIAB, Lancet, 2023). Anaemia and haemoglobin variants distort HbA1c — read it with the CBC. Thyroid Profile (3): One in ten Indian adults is hypothyroid (Unnikrishnan et al., IJEM, 2013). Iron Studies (5): Separates iron deficiency from chronic-disease anaemia; thalassemia trait needs Hb electrophoresis or HPLC. Vitamin B12 (1): 47–70% of Indians deficient (Yajnik et al., JAPI, 2006). Vitamin D (25-Hydroxy) (1): Deficiency 40% to over 90% (Ritu & Gupta, IJCM, 2014). RA Factor (1): Positive in only 70–80% of rheumatoid arthritis; a negative does not exclude it, anti-CCP being more specific. CRP (1): Qualitative — inflammation present or absent; not hs-CRP. ## Sources Unnikrishnan et al., IJEM, 2013;17(4):647–652 · Anjana et al., ICMR-INDIAB, Lancet Diab Endo, 2023;11(7):474–489 · Yajnik et al., JAPI, 2006;54:775–782 · Ritu & Gupta, IJCM, 2014;39(4):178–184 · ADA, 2024 · AHA/ACC, 2018 · Duseja et al., Indian J Gastroenterol, 2022 Content last reviewed: October 2026