What is the difference between genetic testing and traditional routine physical examination?

When we talk about genetic testing, it is always easy to confuse it with the concept of traditional physical examination. In fact, it takes a long time for a disease to go through from the beginning to the onset of the disease, and genetic testing and routine physical examination can play a role in prevention, but the two reflect different stages.

The focus of traditional physical examination is on the disease itself, which mainly diagnoses and examines the symptoms that have appeared in the human body, and its main task is to cooperate with the disease and cannot be predicted before the lesion. Genetic testing is to predict the risk of disease occurrence when the disease does not occur, and then prevent it in a targeted manner.

In reality, many diseases have no obvious signs, and once the disease occurs, the traditional physical examination is very passive and lagging behind, the traditional physical examination provides us with only yesterday and today's physical condition, and genetic testing can find the hidden "landmine" in the body without disease, providing protection for tomorrow and future health.

With the progress of people's health concept, the vast majority of people will have their own genetic map in the future, and prevention will replace ** and become the mainstream in the field of health. Because the personal and social costs of prevention are much lower than **, more importantly, it can also reduce a lot of unnecessary worries and burdens for society and individuals. Of course, the first sexual genetic test is not a "life-saving straw", mainly for the health of the masses on an insurance, it is like wearing a seat belt when riding in a car, wearing sunscreen when the sun is shining, is a positive health care measure.

1.Disease susceptibility genetic testing and routine physical examination can both play a preventive role, but they reflect different stages. A disease takes a long time from its inception to its onset.

Genetic testing is the first stage of testing to prevent what diseases will occur in the future when people do not get sick; Routine testing, on the other hand, is the extent of the disease after it has occurred. Such as: early, mid, etc., this belongs to the second stage of detection, which is the category of clinical medicine.

Therefore, genetic testing is an active prevention of diseases, while traditional physical examination methods cannot play such a preventive role.

2.Traditional physical examination is mainly for the diagnosis and examination of clinical lesions that have appeared in the human body, and its main task is to cooperate with the disease, which cannot be predicted before the lesion, and more and deeper conclusions can be drawn. In other words, in the prevention of diseases, traditional physical examinations are very passive and lagging behind.

In reality, many diseases have no obvious symptoms, and once they occur, modern medicine is often helpless, and patients and their families may suffer and trouble for a lifetime.

3.At present, there are many institutions that conduct genetic testing, and Zhongyuan Concord Gene is relatively authoritative!

First, the meaning of the two is different:

1. The significance of physical examination: through physical examination, we first obtain various accurate information about the physical morphological characteristics, development degree, health status and functional level of the measured object, and organize and implement physical exercise and sports training in a targeted, scientific and reasonable manner according to this information, so as to ensure the enhancement of human physique, promote the improvement of health level and sports technology level.

In addition, the physical examination is of great significance to the establishment of students' physical fitness files, the selection of athletes, and the prevention and treatment of various human diseases.

2. The significance of genetic testing: due to individual genetic differences, different people will react differently to foreign substances, so some patients may have drug allergies, redness, swelling and rashes when using normal doses of drugs. According to the results of genetic testing, a specific program can be formulated to scientifically guide the use of drugs and avoid drug toxicity and side effects.

Second, the overview of the two is different:

1. Overview of physical examination: Physical examination refers to the detection and measurement of the human body's morphological structure and functional development level.

2. Overview of genetic testing: genetic testing is a technology for detecting DNA through blood, other body fluids, or cells, which is a method to take the peripheral venous blood or other tissue cells of the tested person, expand its genetic information, and detect the DNA molecular information in the cells of the tested person through specific equipment, and analyze the gene type and gene defects it contains and whether its expression function is normal.

3. The content of the two is different:

1. The content of physical examination: including exercise history and disease history, morphological index measurement, physiological function test, body composition determination, special examination (laboratory test, X-ray, electroencephalogram, electroencephalogram, electromyography, echocardiography, muscle acupuncture biopsy, etc.).

2. The content of genetic testing: the content that can be tested includes blood, other body fluids, or cells.

Genetic health check-up – zero-level prevention of disease.

Detection of genes, before the occurrence of the disease, the risk of future disease, to reduce the probability of disease detection purpose: genetic risk screening.

Detection technology: next-generation sequencing.

Detection frequency: one test, lifelong benefits.

Routine physical examination – immediate diagnosis of the disease.

Routine physical examination detects the current physical condition, warns of existing disease signs, and assists in disease diagnosis and testing.

Detection technology: CT, B-ultrasound, X-ray, pathological tests, etc.

Frequency: At least once a year, regular inspection.

It is mainly used for the presence or absence of current diseases, or the subclinical treatment of some diseases. The main thing is to assist **.

Genetic testing: It is mainly to measure the genetic perspective in the body, so that you can understand the likelihood of you getting a certain disease. In other words, you can be born with **, regardless of whether you are sick or not. More is based on the results, doEarly, precise prevention

Physical examination is a routine examination that can check the physical condition by checking the blood picture, B ultrasound, and imaging, and the genetic testing test can check the carry-by of one's own genes, the risk of disease, guide childbirth, help find, and find the target.

A physical examination is to check the current physiological state to see which part of the body is currently wrong. Genetic testing is the key to whether you will get sick in the future. Genetic testing can be a good guide to physical examinations.

For example, there is a patient in the hospital who has a high risk of colon cancer after genetic testing, and the doctor recommends that it is best to have a colonoscopy. So the patient went for a colonoscopy, and it was found that there were polyps, and through microscopic examination and pathological biopsy, it was found to be cancerous cell lesions. If he doesn't go for a colonoscopy and doesn't remove the polyp, he will probably be a bowel cancer patient in two to three years.

After the polyp is removed, it will be fine, and a colonoscopy will be done every six months or a year to see if there is a polyp, and if it is removed, it can basically avoid bowel cancer.

Physical examination is generally a routine examination to visually see if there is any disease in the body; Genetic testing is to detect whether there is a mutation in the gene, which plays a role in early prevention and screening.

The general physical examination is mainly aimed at the examination and diagnosis of the clinical lesions that have appeared in the human body, so as to establish the best plan for the disease. It belongs to the category of clinical medicine. Genetic testing is to detect hidden diseases when you are healthy and tell you the risk of possible diseases in the future, with the aim of knowing and preventing them early, so that the diseases that are going to occur do not occur, occur less or occur later.

It falls under the umbrella of preventive medicine. It is important to note that genetic testing is not the same as disease diagnosis.

Genetic testing of Zhongyuan Concord.

Physical examination is only a routine examination of all aspects of the body to see if there are certain diseases, and genetic testing is mainly to see if there are genetic mutations, and the risk of disease can be assessed through genetic testing.

The difference is quite big, and I recently paid attention to the genetic testing in Xia Tianhehui. To put it simply, ordinary physical examination can only detect the disease that you already have, but genetic testing can detect the risk of disease, "preventing disease before it happens".

More than a dozen common cancers, as well as nearly 100 common diseases such as depression, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease, can be tested through genetic testing to understand the risk of disease and carry out targeted prevention.

Genetic testing is all about testing your genes to determine your risk of getting sick in the future.

Because genetic testing is a sexual test, and physical examination is a diagnostic test, it can be used to detect whether you have some.

disease, so the accuracy of genetic testing should be worse than that of physical examination.

But genetic testing can guide your lifestyle and reduce your risk of certain diseases over a long period of time, even in your lifetime, so that you can avoid certain diseases. The purpose of genetic testing is:

"Preventive treatment" is the "upper medicine" in the medical Tao.

Genetic testing is different from what is commonly referred to as a medical examination done in a hospital. A routine physical examination is to test whether you have a disease, while genetic testing is to detect what disease you will get before you get it. With testing, you can accurately assess and avoid disease triggers, which can prevent or delay the onset of disease.

This is something that cannot be done with a traditional medical check-up. But it is not that after doing genetic testing, you don't need to have a physical examination, after doing genetic testing, you should follow the advice of experts to carry out some targeted clinical physical examinations, so as to achieve early detection of diseases.

Difference one is difference two.

Genetic testing can examine the direct cause of the occurrence of the disease and can examine the root cause of the occurrence of the disease, while the routine physical examination can only detect the impact of the occurrence of the disease on the body.

Distinguish between three genetic tests can guide genetic correction and gene **, while routine physical examination can only be used for drugs**. Genetic correction and genetic ** are considered to be the ultimate ** solution for genetic diseases, genetic diseases, and rare diseases.

Difference four difference five.

Genetic testing can detect and analyze a person's disease at the birth of a child, or earlier, and sometimes even when a couple is first married, but a routine physical examination is not.

Genetic testing only needs to analyze human DNA, any kind of sample is sufficient, and saliva, oral mucosa, and anticoagulant venous blood can be used, while routine physical examination is not possible.

A popular understanding of genetic testing.

Without genetic testing, it's like walking with your eyes closed. I don't know if there is a pit (disease) and I don't know when I will fall into the pit (cancer). With genetic testing (predicting a healthy future in advance), you can see where the pitfalls are, and you can avoid them (find a lifestyle that is far away from diseases, such as exercise, diet, environment, mood, sleep, etc.), so that you can have a health management plan that suits your own situation, and you can also make more targeted adjustments in future health checkups.

With genetic testing, it is finally possible to achieve real personalized health management, prevent diseases, and delay the occurrence of diseases.

Through genetic screening, the congenital genetic risk of a disease can be accurately located, so as to screen out the genetic high-risk groups, and carry out health management and early intervention through targeted medical means and personalized living habits. Control the external environmental factors of the disease at a reasonable level, so that diseases such as malignant tumors occur later or do not occur!

Genetic testing and physical examination can play a preventive role, but there are some essential differences, the general traditional physical examination is to pay attention to the disease itself, usually for the human body has symptoms to check, the main task is to cooperate with the disease**; Genetic testing can be detected before the disease occurs, and the probability of future disease can also be assessed according to the genetic perspective, so that many diseases can be prevented in a targeted manner.

They reflect different phases. Genetic testing is the first stage of testing to prevent what diseases will occur in the future when people do not get sick; Routine testing is the extent of the disease after the occurrence of the disease, which belongs to the second stage of testing.

Traditional physical examinations are generally to check for current health problems, and genetic testing can detect potential problems in the body and detect the possibility that the body may have problems in the future.

Traditional physical examination is a physical instrument testing method, while genetic testing is a chemical chromosome pairing, which takes longer.