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 Faridabad. Lab: NABL-accredited. This is the 14-component Comprehensive Full Body Checkup with CRP & RA Factor plus three male tests: Testosterone Total, Prostate Specific Antigen - PSA (Total) and Carcino Embryonic Antigen (CEA). The tier above adds only Amylase, Lipase and CA19.9, all pancreatic. The CRP here is qualitative; for a trackable CRP in mg/L the 91-parameter Comprehensive Full Body Checkup with CRP & RA Factor costs less. ## The 7 AM Testosterone Window When You Leave Home at 6 Testosterone Total screens for hypogonadism: months of fatigue, low libido, lost muscle, low mood. It peaks early in the day, so the sample belongs between 7 and 10 AM; an afternoon draw can read low in a man whose testosterone is normal. For an industrial shift starting at 7 or 8, that window is unavailable. This is not disrupted sleep — you may have slept normally — it is that you are at work throughout the period when the test should be taken, and by the time the shift ends the number has fallen. Two things work: a home collection slot before you leave, which can sit earlier than any centre opens and still fall inside the morning peak, or a draw on your weekly off, which also solves the 10-hour fast. Use the same option for any repeat: two values are comparable only if taken at a comparable hour. A single low value is not a diagnosis. The next step is a repeat morning sample with free testosterone or SHBG, since SHBG shifts with obesity, thyroid and liver disease. LH and FSH are not here. ## PSA and CEA: Screening Aids, Not Answers Both are tumour markers: screening aids a doctor interprets alongside your symptoms, examination and, where needed, imaging. A raised value has many non-cancerous causes; a normal one does not exclude cancer. Prostate Specific Antigen - PSA (Total) is made by prostate tissue generally, not by prostate cancer specifically. It rises with benign prostatic hyperplasia, prostatitis, urinary infection, and recent cycling or ejaculation. A PSA inside range does not rule prostate cancer out; a raised one means a urologist's review, not a diagnosis. It is why this package suits older men in the NIT sectors and Old Faridabad, where an annual screen is how such questions get asked. Carcino Embryonic Antigen (CEA) mainly monitors colorectal cancer already diagnosed rather than finds it. Smokers carry higher baselines, and CEA rises in inflammatory bowel disease, pancreatitis and cirrhosis too. A normal CEA does not exclude bowel cancer; colonoscopy screens for that, and it is not here. ## Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination Testosterone needs the hour it was drawn; PSA and CEA need your symptoms and history. This one arrives already interpreted: a qualified pathologist prepares a slide by hand, reads it under a microscope and writes down what they saw, reporting Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets, Hemoparasites and an Impression. That is also why it is usually missing: skilled manual time, not analyser time, so it is the first line struck from a package built to a price. The CBC reports that haemoglobin is low; the slide shows small pale cells (iron deficiency), large cells (B12 or folate deficiency) or sickle-shaped cells (sickle cell disease), flags blast cells that may point to leukaemia, and catches clumped platelets an analyser returns as a dangerously low count. Hemoparasites looks for malarial parasites inside red cells, which matters where dengue and malaria are endemic across Delhi NCR. ## The Other 13 Components CBC with ESR (21): Anaemia, infection. Kidney Function Test (12): Creatinine, GFR by MDRD and uric acid; the first and last read higher transiently after heavy physical work, so draw after a rest day. Liver Function Test (12): NAFLD affects 30-40% of urban Indian adults (Duseja et al., 2022). Lipid Profile (9): Non-HDL cholesterol beats LDL alone as a predictor (AHA/ACC, 2018). Complete Urine Analysis (17): Not microalbuminuria, which needs a separate ACR test. Blood Glucose Fasting (1) and HbA1c (2): Under 100 mg/dL normal, 100-125 prediabetes, 126+ diabetes; HbA1c 5.7-6.4% prediabetes (ADA, 2024), distorted by anaemia so read with the CBC. Thyroid Profile (3): One in ten Indian adults is hypothyroid (Unnikrishnan et al., IJEM, 2013;17(4):647-652). 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;54:775-782). Vitamin D (25-Hydroxy) (1): Deficiency 40% to over 90% (Ritu & Gupta, IJCM, 2014;39(4):178-184); an early start and an indoor day leave little daylight. RA Factor (1): Qualitative; positive in only 70-80% of rheumatoid arthritis, so a negative does not exclude it, and anti-CCP is more specific. CRP (1): Qualitative, not a number, and 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