5 Medical Checkups You Should Avoid After 70—They May Do More Harm Than Good!

As they reach age 70, many older adults continue to deal with routine medical checkups, believing them to be vital to staying healthy. However, recent research concerns that some of these checkups may be more harmful than beneficial.

Instead of preventing disease, they could cause misdiagnoses, unnecessary surgeries, and terrible side effects.

Now we’ll show you about 5 medical checkups you should extremely revisit after age 70.

1. Unnecessary colonoscopies

Although this test is beneficial before age 70, its use after that age can lead to more complications than benefits. One in three older adults who meet unnecessary colonoscopies ends up with surgery that could have been avoided.

Furthermore, the risk of bleeding, infections and intestinal perforations increases greatly with age.

2. Late mammograms

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