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 Greater Noida. 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, the Comprehensive Health Checkup for Men, adds exactly three more — Amylase, Lipase and CA19.9, all pancreatic — and nothing else; with no pancreatic reason to test, book this one. The CRP here is qualitative: present or absent, no figure. For a trackable CRP in mg/L, the 91-parameter Comprehensive Full Body Checkup with CRP & RA Factor costs less. ## The Morning Testosterone Window, Reached at Home Testosterone Total screens for hypogonadism: months of fatigue, low libido, lost muscle, low mood, poor concentration. It follows a daily rhythm, highest in the early morning, so the sample belongs in a 7 to 10 AM slot; an afternoon draw can read low in a man whose testosterone is normal. In a spread-out area that is harder than it sounds: from a residential sector, reaching a centre by 8 AM means a journey before breakfast at the end of a ten-hour fast, and this is the appointment that gets postponed. A phlebotomist at your door in Beta 2, Delta 1 or Sigma makes the morning window a matter of picking a slot. A single 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, thyroid and liver disease. LH and FSH, separating testicular from pituitary causes, are not in this package. ## PSA and CEA: Screening Aids, Not Answers 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 rises with benign prostatic hyperplasia (age-related prostate enlargement), prostatitis, and recent cycling or ejaculation. A PSA inside range does not rule prostate cancer out. A raised one means a urologist's review. Carcino Embryonic Antigen (CEA) mainly monitors colorectal cancer already diagnosed rather than finds it. Smokers carry higher baselines, and CEA also rises in inflammatory bowel disease, pancreatitis and cirrhosis. A normal CEA does not exclude bowel cancer; colonoscopy or a faecal immunochemical test screens for that, neither here. ## Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination This is the component that checks the others. A qualified pathologist prepares a slide from the same tube the analyser ran and reads it by hand, reporting five findings: Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets, Hemoparasites and an Impression. That second look matters. When an analyser returns an alarmingly low platelet count, the commonest explanation is clumping in the tube, and the slide settles it on the sample you already gave instead of sending you back for another draw — where every trip is long, that is an answer today rather than next week. The slide also explains: the CBC reports low haemoglobin, the smear shows small pale cells (iron deficiency), large cells (B12 or folate deficiency) or sickle-shaped cells (sickle cell disease), and catches blast cells that may point to leukaemia. Hemoparasites looks for malarial parasites inside red cells, which matters where dengue and malaria are endemic across Delhi NCR. Being skilled manual time, it is the line cheaper packages drop. ## The Other 13 Components CBC with ESR (21): Anaemia, infection, inflammation. Liver Function Test (12): SGOT, SGPT, GGT; NAFLD affects 30-40% of urban Indian adults (Duseja et al., 2022). Kidney Function Test (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): Protein, glucose, infection — not microalbuminuria, which needs a separate ACR test. Blood Glucose Fasting (1) and HbA1c (2): Under 100 mg/dL normal, 100-125 prediabetes, 126 or above diabetes; HbA1c 5.7-6.4% prediabetes (ADA, 2024), distorted by anaemia and haemoglobin variants so read with the CBC. Thyroid Profile (3): TT3, TT4, TSH; 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): 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 — present or absent, 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