At a Glance
Package: Full Body Checkup with HbA1c. Tests: 82 parameters, 9 components. Price: From 799. Fasting: 10 hours. Sample: Blood and urine, single draw. Reports: 24 hours, digital. Home collection: Free across Faridabad. Lab: NABL-accredited.
This is the Basic Full Body Checkup plus a Thyroid Profile (TT3, TT4, TSH) and HbA1c with average blood glucose (2): 82 parameters, 9 components, all 77 base parameters kept. The Full Body Checkup with Thyroid stops at the thyroid addition (80); the Full Body Checkup with Vitamin D & B12 adds the two deficiency markers instead (79). The Advanced Full Body Checkup with Vitamin D & B12 holds everything here plus Iron Studies, Vitamin B12 and Vitamin D at 89.
The One Result an Early Shift Cannot Spoil
Almost every instruction on a preparation list is a timing instruction. Fast ten hours. Come between 7 and 9 AM. Avoid heavy exertion for twenty-four hours. For someone whose shift starts at 6 AM in Faridabad's manufacturing and trade sector, all three are difficult at once, and the results that depend on them suffer: a fasting glucose taken after eight hours is not a fasting glucose, and creatinine and uric acid in the Kidney Function Test both rise temporarily after a physical shift.
HbA1c is the exception. Glucose binds irreversibly to haemoglobin across the roughly three-month life of a red blood cell, so the figure averages that whole period. It does not move with last night's dinner, the hour of the draw, whether you worked that day, or how long you actually managed to fast. It is the one number here that an early start, a long shift and a short fast cannot distort, which makes it the most reliable glucose measure for anyone whose week does not bend around a lab's hours.
The American Diabetes Association Standards of Care in Diabetes, 2024 reads HbA1c below 5.7% as normal, 5.7-6.4% as prediabetes, 6.5% or above as diabetes; fasting glucose below 100 mg/dL normal, 100-125 prediabetes, 126 or above diabetes. India has 101 million adults living with diabetes (Anjana et al., ICMR-INDIAB, Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 2023;11(7):474-489). Both numbers are reported here, because each finds cases the other misses.
Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination
There is a specific way an HbA1c gets a person wrongly labelled, and this profile prevents it. HbA1c depends on how long red blood cells survive, and iron deficiency lengthens that exposure, nudging the figure up independently of blood sugar. Someone with iron deficiency anaemia can therefore return an HbA1c in the prediabetic band on entirely normal glucose. Over 50% of Indian women aged 15-49 are anaemic (NFHS-5, 2019-21), so this is not rare, and the wrong conclusion from it is a diagnosis nobody needed.
The Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination catches it. A qualified pathologist prepares a slide and reads it under a microscope, cell by cell, reporting five findings: Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets, Hemoparasites and a written Impression. Small pale microcytic cells point towards iron deficiency, macrocytic cells towards B12 or folate deficiency, sickle-shaped cells towards sickle cell disease — and haemoglobin variants interfere with the HbA1c assay outright. The same slide shows blast cells raising the possibility of leukaemia, platelet clumping an automated counter reports as a dangerously low count, and malarial parasites inside red cells; dengue and malaria are endemic across Delhi NCR. It cannot be automated, so it costs pathologist time — the line item most packages drop.
Reading the Results and Their Limits
HbA1c is an average, so it can look acceptable while glucose swings widely through the day; after-meal spikes need a postprandial glucose or a glucose tolerance test, neither included. It reads falsely low after recent blood loss or a transfusion. There is no urine microalbumin or albumin-creatinine ratio, so early diabetic kidney damage is not screened for — the urine analysis detects overt protein only. The Thyroid Profile measures total T3 and T4, not free fractions or antibodies, so a raised TSH means a physician and a repeat. Iron Studies, Vitamin B12 and Vitamin D are absent, and nothing here tests anything occupational.
The Other 7 Components
CBC with ESR (21): The panel HbA1c must be read against. Thyroid Profile (3): TT3, TT4 and TSH; one in ten Indian adults is hypothyroid, women roughly three times as often as men (Unnikrishnan et al., IJEM, 2013;17(4):647-652), and it presents like early glucose intolerance. Liver Function Test (12): NAFLD affects 30-40% of urban Indian adults and tracks insulin resistance (Duseja et al., Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2022). Kidney Function Test (12): Creatinine, urea, BUN, electrolytes, uric acid and GFR by MDRD. Lipid Profile (9): Non-HDL cholesterol, a better cardiovascular predictor than LDL alone (AHA/ACC, 2018). Complete Urine Analysis (17): Glycosuria, proteinuria, infection, crystals. Blood Glucose Fasting (1).
Sources
ADA Standards of Care in Diabetes, 2024 · Anjana et al., ICMR-INDIAB, Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 2023;11(7):474-489 · Unnikrishnan et al., IJEM, 2013;17(4):647-652 · NFHS-5, 2019-21 · AHA/ACC Cholesterol Guideline, 2018 · Duseja et al., Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2022
Content last reviewed: October 2026