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A checkup is only as good as the questions asked and the tests ordered. Here is what belongs on the list at 25, 45 and 65 — and what usually does not.
More than one in three American adults has prediabetes. Most have no idea — and most of them can still turn it around.
Colonoscopy is not the only path. Stool-based tests, CT colonography and blood tests all count, as long as you actually do one.
