Preventive Care and Screenings

Screening Test

Ages 18-39

Ages 40-49

Ages 50-64

Age 65+

GENERAL HEALTH:
Full checkup, including weight and height

Discuss with your health care provider.

Discuss with your health care provider.

Discuss with your health care provider.

Discuss with your health care provider.

Thyroid (TSH) test

Discuss with your health care provider.

Discuss with your health care provider.

Discuss with your health care provider.

Discuss with your health care provider.

HIV test

Get this test at least once to find out your HIV status. Ask your health care provider if and when you need the test again.

Get this test at least once to find out your HIV status. Ask your health care provider if and when you need the test again.

Get this test at least once to find out your HIV status. Ask your health care provider if and when you need the test again.

Discuss with your health care provider.

HEART HEALTH:
Blood pressure test

At least every 2 years

At least every 2 years

At least every 2 years

At least every 2 years

Cholesterol test

   Start at age 20,  
discuss with your
health care
provider.

Discuss with your health care provider.

Discuss with your health care provider.

Discuss with your health care provider.

    Peripheral artery  
disease (PAD)

Discuss with your health care provider.

Discuss with your health care provider.

Discuss with your health care provider.

BONE HEALTH:
Bone density screen

Discuss with your health care provider.

Discuss with your health care provider.

Get a bone mineral density test at least once. Talk to your health care provider about repeat testing.

DIABETES:
Blood glucose
or A1c test

Discuss with your health care provider.

Start at age 45, then every 3 years.

Every 3 years

Every 3 years

BREAST HEALTH:
Mammogram
(x-ray of breast)

Every 1–2 years. Discuss with your health care provider.

Every 1–2 years. Discuss with your health care provider.

Every 1–2 years. Discuss with your health care provider.

Clinical breast exam

At least every 3 years starting in your 20s

Yearly

Yearly

Yearly

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH:
Pap test

Every 2 years starting at age 21. Women 30 and older, every 3 years.

Every 3 years

Every 3 years

Discuss with your health care provider.

Pelvic exam

Yearly beginning at age 21. Younger than 21 and sexually active, discuss with your health care provider.

Yearly

Yearly

Yearly

Chlamydia test

Yearly until age 25 if sexually active. Age 26 and older, get this test if you have new or multiple partners.

Get this test if
you have new or multiple partners.

Get this test if
you have new or multiple partners.

Get this test if
you have new or multiple partners.

Sexually
transmitted infection (STI) tests

Both partners should get tested for STIs, including HIV, before initiating sexual intercourse.

Both partners should get tested for STIs, including HIV, before initiating sexual intercourse.

Both partners should get tested for STIs, including HIV, before initiating sexual intercourse.

Both partners should get tested for STIs, including HIV, before initiating sexual intercourse.

MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING

Discuss with your health care provider.

Discuss with your health care provider.

Discuss with your health care provider.

Discuss with your health care provider.

COLORECTAL HEALTH (USE ONE OF THESE
THREE METHODS): Fecal occult blood test

Yearly

Yearly.
Older than age 75, discuss with your health care provider.

Flexible
sigmoidoscopy
(with fecal occult
blood test)

Every 5 years

Every 5 years.
Older than age 75, discuss with your health care provider.

Colonoscopy

Every 10 years

Every 10 years.
Older than age 75, discuss with your health care provider.

EYE AND EAR HEALTH: Comprehensive
eye exam

Discuss with your doctor.

Get a baseline exam at age 40, then every 2–4 years or as your doctor advises.

Every 2–4 years until age 55, then every 1–3 years until age 65, or as your doctor advises.

Every 1–2 years

Hearing test

Starting at age 18,
then every 10 years.

Every 10 years

Every 3 years

Every 3 years

SKIN HEALTH:
Mole exam

Monthly mole self-exam by a health care provider as part of a routine full checkup, starting at age 20.

Monthly mole self-exam by a health care provider as part of a routine full checkup.

Monthly mole self-exam by a health care provider as part of a routine full checkup.

Monthly mole self-exam by a health care provider as part of a routine full checkup.

ORAL HEALTH: Dental exam

Routinely; discuss with your dentist.

Routinely; discuss with your dentist.

Routinely; discuss with your dentist.

Routinely; discuss withyour dentist.

IMMUNIZATIONS: Influenza vaccine

Discuss with your health care provider.

Discuss with your health care provider.

Yearly

Yearly

Pneumococcal vaccine

One time only

Tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis
booster vaccine

Every 10 years

Every 10 years

Every 10 years

Every 10 years

Human
papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine

Up to age 26, if not already completed vaccine series;
discuss with your health care provider.

Meningococcal
vaccine

Discuss with
your health care provider if you are a college student or military recruit.

Herpes zoster vaccine (to prevent shingles)

Starting at age 60, one time only. Ask your doctor or nurse if it is okay for you to get it.

Starting at age 60, onetime only. Ask your doctor or nurse if it is okay for you to get it.