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 Greater Noida. 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 across 9 components, all 77 Basic parameters retained. The Full Body Checkup with Thyroid stops at the thyroid addition (80) and the Full Body Checkup with Vitamin D & B12 adds the two deficiency markers instead (79). The Advanced Full Body Checkup with Vitamin D & B12 contains everything here plus Iron Studies, Vitamin B12 and Vitamin D at 89.
When Family History Is the Only Clue You Have
Type 2 diabetes produces no symptom for years, and in a young population often none at all. For most people in their twenties and thirties across Greater Noida's residential sectors there is nothing to notice and nothing to report to a doctor — the only real signal is a parent, grandparent or sibling who has it. India has 101 million adults living with diabetes (Anjana et al., ICMR-INDIAB, Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 2023;11(7):474-489), a large share diagnosed late. Family history is a reason to measure now.
HbA1c suits that situation, and the logistics of a spread-out city. It reflects average blood glucose over roughly three months, so unlike a fasting reading it does not depend on what you ate yesterday or how early the sample was taken. The package as a whole still needs a 10-hour fast for the Lipid Profile and Blood Glucose Fasting, but with a phlebotomist coming to Delta 2, Omega 2, Sigma, Eta, Chi 1, Pari Chowk, Gaur City or Greater Noida West, the fasting window ends at your own door instead of at the end of a journey.
Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination
HbA1c is not a direct measurement of blood sugar. It is an inference resting on an assumption: that your red blood cells survive and turn over at a normal rate. Glucose binds to haemoglobin for as long as the cell lives, so the figure is only as sound as that assumption. Cells that die early accumulate less glucose and read low; iron deficiency anaemia pushes the figure the other way; some haemoglobin variants interfere with the assay outright. The Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination is the only component here that inspects the cells the calculation depends on, rather than a number derived from them.
A qualified pathologist prepares a slide from your sample and reads it under a microscope, cell by cell. It cannot be automated — pathologist time rather than analyser time, which is why it is the line item dropped to hold a price point. Five findings are reported: Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets, Hemoparasites and a written Impression.
Microcytic cells point towards iron deficiency, macrocytic cells towards B12 or folate deficiency, sickle-shaped cells towards sickle cell disease. The slide also shows blast cells raising the possibility of leukaemia and platelet clumping that automated counters report as a dangerously low platelet count. Dengue and malaria are endemic across Delhi NCR, and the Hemoparasites finding looks for malarial parasites inside red cells.
Reading HbA1c and Its Limits
The American Diabetes Association Standards of Care in Diabetes, 2024 reads HbA1c below 5.7% as normal, 5.7 to 6.4% as prediabetes and 6.5% or above as diabetes; for fasting glucose, below 100 mg/dL is normal, 100 to 125 mg/dL prediabetes and 126 mg/dL or above diabetes.
HbA1c accuracy is affected by anaemia and by haemoglobin variants, so it is read alongside the CBC in this package rather than alone. It is also an average, so it can look acceptable while glucose swings widely through the day — post-meal spikes need a postprandial glucose or a glucose tolerance test, neither included. There is no urine microalbumin or albumin-creatinine ratio, so early diabetic kidney damage is not screened for. The Thyroid Profile measures total T3 and T4, not the free fractions or antibodies. Iron Studies, Vitamin B12 and Vitamin D are not included.
The Other 7 Components
CBC with ESR (21): The panel HbA1c is read against; over 50% of Indian women aged 15-49 are anaemic (NFHS-5, 2019-21). 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). Liver Function Test (12): NAFLD affects 30-40% of urban Indian adults (Duseja et al., Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2022). Kidney Function Test (12): Creatinine, urea, electrolytes, uric acid, GFR by MDRD. Lipid Profile (9): Includes Non-HDL cholesterol, a better cardiovascular predictor than LDL alone (AHA/ACC, 2018). Complete Urine Analysis (17): Protein, glucose, ketones, nitrites, pus cells, crystals. Blood Glucose Fasting (1).
Sources
NFHS-5, 2019-21 · Unnikrishnan et al., IJEM, 2013;17(4):647-652 · Anjana et al., ICMR-INDIAB, Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 2023;11(7):474-489 · ADA Standards of Care in Diabetes, 2024 · AHA/ACC Cholesterol Guideline, 2018 · Duseja et al., Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2022
Content last reviewed: October 2026