Short, patient-friendly articles on preparing for tests and understanding your reports, written by the team at Faridabad Diagnostic Centre. New articles added regularly.
Preparation
A simple, practical guide to what fasting really means, how long to fast, and what you can and cannot have before your sample is drawn.
Thyroid & Hormones
What a TSH test measures, how to prepare, and what a high or low result can indicate about your thyroid.
Blood & Anaemia
What a complete blood count measures, how to prepare, and what the different parts of the result mean.
Diabetes
What an HbA1c test measures, how to prepare, and what the result means for diabetes monitoring.
Heart & Cholesterol
A plain-English walkthrough of the numbers on a lipid report: cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL and LDL, and what they do and do not tell you.
Heart & Cholesterol
What a lipid profile measures, how to prepare, and what cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL and LDL mean.
Vitamins & Nutrition
What a vitamin D test measures, how to prepare, and what a low result can mean for bone and general health.
Liver & Kidney
What a liver function test measures, how to prepare, and what the different liver enzymes and proteins mean.
Liver & Kidney
What a kidney function test measures, how to prepare, and what creatinine, urea and electrolytes mean.
Blood & Anaemia
What an iron test measures, how to prepare, and what low or high iron levels can indicate.
Heart & Cholesterol
What an ESR test measures, how to prepare, and what a high result can indicate about inflammation.
Urine & Kidney
What a urine routine examination measures, how to prepare, and what the different parts of the result mean.
Thyroid & Hormones
Signs and situations where a thyroid test can be useful, what TSH, FT3 and FT4 measure, and how often to screen.
Quality & About
Why we take part in external quality assurance, what the VILAC programme involves, and how it helps make sure your report is trustworthy.
A short multiple-choice question on iron-deficiency anaemia, answered and explained in plain English by Dr B.C. Gupta, MD (Pathology).
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