Free health checks for 30-to-39 age group starting this year
Free health checks for 30-to-39 age group starting this year
2025-01-14
The Health Promotion Administration is expanding its free health check program to cover the 30-to-39 age group this year. On Tuesday, the HPA held a press conference with spokesperson Chen Kuan-yu, who played at the Premier12 last year and is currently 34-years-old. Now, adults between the ages of 30 and 39 are eligible for a free health check every five years under the National Health Insurance.
Rakuten Monkeys pitcher Chen Kuan-yu, who also played in Team Taiwan for Premier12 last year, is a spokesperson for the Health Promotion Administration.
Chen Kuan-yu
Rakuten Monkeys pitcher
There aren’t so many of us in the 30-to-39 age group in the Taiwan Team. I don’t really do health checks. But they’re important for athletes, because some illnesses are internal and more difficult to notice.
Due to an increasing prevalence of high blood pressure, high blood sugar and high blood lipids in the 30-to-39 age group, starting this year, those in this age group can get a free health check every five years under the National Health Insurance.
Chen Kuan-yu
Rakuten Monkeys pitcher
There are more refined foods now, so we need to exercise moderation in our interest in food. It’s also important for us athletes to pay attention to what we eat.
Chiu Tai-yuan
Minister of health
There are many young career-minded people now. Sometimes they do a health check in their 30s or 40s, and find out they have slightly high cholesterol levels, blood sugar levels, or they’re slightly overweight. But you’ll see that as soon as they start adjusting their lifestyle and improve their physical and mental health, all the numbers in red will go back to black, so no immediate intervention will be needed. That also helps prolong the potential onset of chronic diseases.
To put things into perspective, as of 2023, 9.7% of 30- to 39-year-olds have high blood pressure, 2.5% have high blood sugar levels and as many as 18.7% have high blood lipid levels.
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"免費健檢"擴大到至30歲 國健署邀投手陳冠宇代言
2025-01-14
國健署免費健康檢查年齡，擴大到30歲以上，衛福部提醒三高風險，統計共320萬人受惠，還特別請來34歲的12強左投陳冠宇來代言，他建議大家，遠離精緻飲食。
一球命中目標，34歲的12強台灣隊左投陳冠宇，這回成為國健署代言人。
[[樂天桃猿投手 陳冠宇]]
“這次台灣隊可能30至39歲沒幾個。比較沒有這個習慣去健康檢查。運動員也是非常重要，因為一些疾病都長在裡面，其實本身會比較難去發覺到”
國健署的免費健康檢查，今年起增加30至39歲，每5年一次，就是因為這個族群的三高盛行率，逐年攀高。
[[樂天桃猿投手 陳冠宇]]
“因為現在的精緻飲食比較多，還是得去控制一些飲食的興趣，對我們來說運動員也是，必須得去注意到這件事情”
[[衛福部長 邱泰源]]
“很多年輕的職場上打拼的人，有時候我們看到他，30幾歲、40歲來檢查，膽固醇稍高、血糖稍高、體重稍高，其實你只要一發現，馬上讓他生活改變，身心調整好的話，所有紅字變黑字，就不用馬上(治療) ，就會把他整個可能，將來的慢性病能夠延後”
統計至2023年，30至39歲族群，高血壓佔9.7%，高血糖2.5%，高血脂更高達18.7%。
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