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  • Health Maintenance Guidelines
    • Ages 0-18
    • Ages 19-39
    • Ages 40-49
    • Ages 50-70
    • Ages 71+
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    Health Maintenance Guidelines
    Ages 19 to 39

    Check blood pressure, weight and height to calculate body mass index (BMI) and health risks.

    SCREENING TESTS

    • HIV Testing Discussion - Routine discussion
    • Diabetes Screening - All non-Caucasians; All Caucasians with sustained blood pressure greater than 135/80, or BMI greater than or equal to 25, or history of gestational diabetes, or family history of diabetes.
    Men's Health
    Lipid Testing - At age 35

    Women's Health
    Chlamydia/GC for sexually active women - Yearly through age 24

    Pap Test (First Pap test should be performed at age 21 or 3 years after first sexual contact, whichever comes first.) - Every 3 years

    IMMUNIZATIONS
    Tdap/TD - Every 10 years

    HPV (Human Papillomavirus) - Age 9-26. Females should receive the HPV 3-shot series at 0, 2 and 6 month intervals.

    VZV (Chicken pox, Varicella Zoster Virus) - Individuals born in 1980 or later should receive a second vaccine.

    Vaccination Information Sheets from the CDC

    These guidelines may vary for patients on chronic medications or for patients with personal or family health risks.


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