At a Glance
Package: Full Body Checkup with HbA1c & Thyroid. 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 Gurgaon. Lab: NABL-accredited.
This is the Basic Full Body Checkup — all 77 of its parameters — plus HbA1c with average blood glucose and a Thyroid Profile. It is one of three parallel single-concern versions of that base, not a tier above them: the Full Body Checkup with Thyroid adds thyroid alone, and the Full Body Checkup with Vitamin D & B12 adds the two deficiency markers absent here. If you want Iron Studies, Vitamin B12 and Vitamin D as well, that is the Advanced Full Body Checkup with Vitamin D & B12 at 89 parameters.
HbA1c With Fasting Glucose: A Screening Pair, Not Diabetes Monitoring
This is a screening combination for someone who does not yet know their glucose status. It is not a diabetes monitoring package, and it should not be used as one.
HbA1c (Glycosylated Hemoglobin) reports two values — HbA1c and an average blood glucose figure derived from it — and reflects roughly the previous three months of blood sugar, because glucose binds irreversibly to haemoglobin over the life of a red cell. Blood Glucose Fasting reports a single morning value. Each catches cases the other misses, which is the point of running them together: a near-normal fasting reading can sit alongside an HbA1c already in the prediabetic band, and isolated fasting hyperglycaemia can show a borderline HbA1c. The American Diabetes Association Standards of Care in Diabetes, 2024 sets fasting glucose below 100 mg/dL as normal, 100-125 as prediabetes and 126 or above as diabetes, and HbA1c below 5.7% as normal, 5.7-6.4% as prediabetes and 6.5% or above as diabetes. India has 101 million adults living with diabetes and a much larger prediabetic population (Anjana RM, Mohan V et al., ICMR-INDIAB, Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 2023;11(7):474-489).
What this package deliberately does not do. If you already have a diagnosis of diabetes, annual review needs more than this. It needs a urine albumin-creatinine ratio, which is not included here: the Complete Urine Analysis is routine dipstick and microscopy, detecting overt proteinuria but not microalbuminuria, the earliest sign of diabetic kidney damage. There is also no postprandial glucose, so the after-meal rise is not measured. A diagnosed diabetic should ask their physician for an ACR and a postprandial reading alongside these tests.
One caveat applies to everyone: HbA1c accuracy is affected by anaemia and haemoglobin variants, which can push the figure up or down independently of blood sugar. The result has to be read alongside the CBC in this same package.
Thyroid Profile and the Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination
The Thyroid Profile reports Tri-Iodothyronine Total (TT3), Thyroxine - Total (TT4) and Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH). About one in ten Indian adults is hypothyroid, women around three times more often than men, 15.86% against 5.02% (Unnikrishnan et al., Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2013;17(4):647-652). Thyroid belongs next to glucose because hypothyroidism and early diabetes share the same presenting complaints — tiredness, weight change, low mood — and because untreated hypothyroidism independently raises LDL cholesterol, measured by the Lipid Profile here. The profile measures total rather than free hormones and does not include Anti-TPO antibodies, so a raised TSH needs a physician and a repeat, not a conclusion.
The Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination reports five findings: Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets, Hemoparasites and a written Impression from the pathologist. It does two jobs here. It makes the HbA1c safer to interpret, because anaemia distorts HbA1c and a pathologist examining cell morphology can indicate the type — small pale cells suggesting iron deficiency, enlarged cells suggesting B12 or folate deficiency, sickle-shaped cells indicating sickle cell disease. And it finds what no analyser can: blast cells that may point to leukaemia, platelet clumping that automated counters report as a critically low count, and hemoparasites, a live concern in Gurgaon with dengue and malaria endemic across Delhi NCR. The slide is prepared and read by hand and cannot be automated, so the cost is pathologist time — which is the line item competing packages drop to hold a price point.
The Other 5 Components
CBC with ESR (21): Anaemia, infection, inflammation, blood disorders; over 50% of Indian women aged 15-49 are anaemic (NFHS-5, 2019-21). Liver Function Test (12): Bilirubin fractions, ALP, SGOT, SGPT, GGT, protein, albumin, ratios — NAFLD affects 30-40% of urban Indian adults and travels with insulin resistance (Duseja et al., Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2022). Kidney Function Test (12): Creatinine, urea, BUN, electrolytes, calcium, phosphorus, uric acid and GFR by MDRD, which stages kidney disease. Lipid Profile (9): Non-HDL cholesterol is a better predictor than LDL alone (AHA/ACC, 2018), plus three cardiac ratios. Complete Urine Analysis (17): Glycosuria, overt proteinuria, urinary infection, crystals.
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