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 Noida. Lab: NABL-accredited.
This is the Basic Full Body Checkup plus two additions: HbA1c with average blood glucose, and a Thyroid Profile reporting TT3, TT4 and TSH. All 77 base parameters remain. It sits parallel to the Full Body Checkup with Thyroid, which adds thyroid alone at 80 parameters, and to the Full Body Checkup with Vitamin D & B12, which adds the two deficiency markers at 79. The Advanced Full Body Checkup with Vitamin D & B12 carries this package's additions together with Iron Studies and both vitamins at 89 parameters.
The Glucose Number a Night Shift Cannot Distort
A fasting glucose is a snapshot and it depends completely on when you last ate. For someone in Noida's offshore-support sector who finishes a shift at 6 AM after eating at 2 AM, standardising that snapshot is genuinely awkward. HbA1c behaves differently. It reflects the glucose bound to haemoglobin averaged over roughly three months, so it does not move with last night's meal, the hour of collection, or whether you slept before the draw. For rotational and night-shift workers it is the steadier of the two numbers, and this package reports both.
The American Diabetes Association Standards of Care in Diabetes, 2024 reads HbA1c below 5.7% as normal, 5.7-6.4% as prediabetes and 6.5% or above as diabetes, with fasting glucose below 100 mg/dL normal, 100-125 mg/dL prediabetes and 126 mg/dL or above diabetes. India has 101 million adults living with diabetes (Anjana et al., ICMR-INDIAB, Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 2023;11(7):474-489). Circadian disruption from rotating shifts is associated with metabolic risk, honest background for tracking these markers in this workforce. It is background, not a diagnosis, and nothing here measures shift work itself.
The Thyroid Profile is here for a related reason: thyroid dysfunction and glucose intolerance produce overlapping symptoms, and one in ten Indian adults is hypothyroid, women roughly three times as often as men (Unnikrishnan et al., IJEM, 2013;17(4):647-652). TSH follows a daily rhythm, so mention your shift pattern at collection and keep the sampling point consistent if you are tracking it over time.
Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination
Dengue, malaria and chikungunya are endemic across Delhi NCR, and Hemoparasites is one of five findings in the Blood Picture - Peripheral Smear Examination included here. It is the only component where a human being looks at your blood: a qualified pathologist prepares a slide and reads it under a microscope, cell by cell. Because that is pathologist time rather than machine time, it is the component usually dropped when a package must hold a price point.
The five findings are Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells, Platelets, Hemoparasites, and a written Impression from the pathologist.
Malarial parasites are seen inside red cells on the slide and nowhere in an automated count. The same examination catches platelet clumping, which an analyser reports as a dangerously low platelet count on normal blood, and blast cells that raise the possibility of leukaemia. Beyond those, the smear reads size, shape and internal structure: a CBC states that haemoglobin is low, while microcytic cells point towards iron deficiency, macrocytic cells towards B12 or folate deficiency and sickle-shaped cells towards sickle cell disease.
Where HbA1c Can Mislead
HbA1c accuracy is affected by anaemia and by haemoglobin variants, both of which change how long red cells survive and therefore how much glucose they accumulate. It must be interpreted alongside the CBC in this package, and in anyone with a haemoglobin variant a fasting or post-meal glucose carries more weight. HbA1c also gives an average, so it can look acceptable while large swings between high and low readings are happening underneath it. It is not in itself a measure of kidney damage: the Complete Urine Analysis here detects overt protein but not microalbuminuria, so early diabetic nephropathy needs a separate urine microalbumin or albumin-creatinine ratio test. This package has no Iron Studies, no Vitamin B12 and no Vitamin D.
The Other 6 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): NAFLD affects 30-40% of urban Indian adults (Duseja et al., Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2022) and tracks closely with insulin resistance. Kidney Function Test (12): Creatinine and GFR by MDRD stage chronic kidney disease; uric acid screens for gout. Lipid Profile (9): Includes Non-HDL cholesterol, a better predictor of cardiovascular risk than LDL alone (AHA/ACC, 2018). Complete Urine Analysis (17): Glycosuria, overt proteinuria, urinary infection, crystals. Blood Glucose Fasting (1): Read alongside HbA1c rather than instead of it.
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