Short, patient-friendly articles on preparing for tests and understanding your reports, written by the team at Faridabad Diagnostic Centre. New articles added regularly.
Fever & Infections
What dengue NS1, dengue serology, malaria and Widal tests detect, and why the right test depends on your day of fever.
Blood & Anaemia
What a CRP test measures, how it differs from ESR, and what a raised or normal result can mean.
Bone & Joint
What a uric acid test measures, how it is used to help diagnose gout, and how to prepare for an accurate result.
Blood & Anaemia
What a vitamin B12 blood test measures, why low B12 causes anaemia and nerve symptoms, and how to prepare.
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 each week on common laboratory tests, answered and explained in plain language by Dr B.C. Gupta, MD (Pathology).
A short multiple-choice question on the inflammation marker CRP, answered and explained in plain English by Dr B.C. Gupta, MD (Pathology).
A short multiple-choice question on early dengue testing, answered and explained in plain English by Dr B.C. Gupta, MD (Pathology).
A look at the blood test usually ordered first when gout is suspected, answered and explained in plain English by Dr B.C. Gupta, MD (Pathology).
Which pair of tests is part of the workup for anaemia, answered and explained in plain English by Dr B.C. Gupta, MD (Pathology).
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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