{"id":105434,"date":"2025-03-12T10:55:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/can-make-it-worse-says-the-medical-association-news-sorlandet-local-news-tv-and-radio\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T10:55:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:55:27","slug":"can-make-it-worse-says-the-medical-association-news-sorlandet-local-news-tv-and-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/can-make-it-worse-says-the-medical-association-news-sorlandet-local-news-tv-and-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"– Can make it worse, says the Medical Association. – news S\u00f8rlandet – local news, TV and radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The case summarized: \u2022 More and more Norwegians are buying private health checks, with prices ranging from approx. 3000 to 5000 kroner. \u2022 The company Austad diagnostics has 15 clinics that offer these checks. Dar experienced an increase of approx. 20 percent each year, with thousands of patients a year. \u2022 Professor and expert on health anxiety, Ingvard Wilhelmsen refers to 17 different studies showing that such studies have small after no effect on mortality. \u2022 Other private clinics such as Aleris and Volvat also offer health checks, but say this is a marginal part of their business. 1.2 percent of patients they test. – I’m a little nervous. But it will be good to get this check done. Per Nyst\u00f8l is in the waiting room of the newly opened department of Austad diagnostics in Kristiansand. The clinic is the latest of the 14 departments the company has opened in Norway. They offer all different forms of health checks. The price tag for these varies from about 3000 to almost NOK 5,000. Nyst\u00f8l got the tip of full scan of the body with ultrasound following tips from a friend. – There is some heart disease in the family, and then I lost my brother abruptly, recently. Then I want to check that everything is ok with my health, he says. Nyst\u00f8l is not alone. The offers of various forms of such studies abound. Several experts warn against the trend and believe such checks can provide false security. Per Nyst\u00f8l (60) took private health checks to exclude illness after close family deaths. Photo: Espen Bierud \/ news Scans the whole body. He starts a manual scan of large parts of the body with an ultrasound apparatus. Living images of pulmonary arteries and lymph tracks in the body are quickly emerging. – We also map if there is a risk of cardiovascular disease. We look at the internal organ that lives, pancreas and gallbladder. Patient Per Nyst\u00f8l is examined by a doctor and owner of Austad diagnostics, Gunnar Austad. Photo: Espen Bierud \/ news Austad adds that you also check breast and armpits in women. He is aware that such studies have a utility. – Last year we discover cancer cases or precursors to this in around one in a hundred patients we test. Ultrasound provides detailed images from large parts of the body. Photo: Espen Bierud \/ news “The hypochondriac” warns after the study, patient Per Nyst\u00f8l comes smilingly out of the examination room. – It was positive and no discovery of illness. Now I feel like 50 again, says the 60-year-old. He says he can now lower his shoulders. Professor emeritus at the University of Bergen, Ingvard Wilhelmsen is a well -known voice in the discussion about health anxiety. He has hypochondria as a special field, and is particularly critical of people buying what he popularly calls “EU controllers”, to be reassured. -There is little point in taking ultrasound of the whole body or a full MRI examination if you have no special symptoms in advance. He believes that this type of health checks has the greatest value as a business idea. – If everything works normally after a health check, how long do you feel safe? – About one second. This shows that such studies had little or no effect on mortality, according to the professor. – On the contrary, they can help increase the health anxiety in the longer term. You can quickly get into a vicious circle. There will be an increased focus on illness and new investigations, without any serious illness, he explains. Gunnar Austad at the clinic replies that he has very few patients with real health anxiety. The doctor believes the Danish research that is referred to is not relevant to today’s health checks. He believes this is largely based on older data, dating back to the 1950s. -Other Danish research has been done on the contrary shows the utility of the ultrasound checks we perform. According to Austad, there is a reduction in mortality of 7 per cent for some diseases in patients who have performed the check. Patient Per Nyst\u00f8l felt that his brother died a short time ago. He takes a health check to be on the safe side. Photo: Espen Bierud \/ news increases sharply Austad diagnostics is greatest in the country on health checks with ultrasound. The rise of people who want these has increased steadily, says Austad. “We have seen an increase of about 20 percent every year since 2010. There are a total of several thousand patients a year,” he adds. In 2019, the company had 10 clinics. Now there have been 14 here at home, and one in Denmark. These are patients from both sexes and from all ages. – Some come because they have specific symptoms. Others have experienced close family illness. Gunnar Austad believes ultrasound of the whole body can reveal serious illness. Photo: Espen Bierud \/ news news has contacted three other clinics engaged in various forms of private health checks. No one wants to answer specific questions from news about the offer, and how many checks they perform a year. This is the answers to the private clinics: Communications Director Gro Bogen Nilsen in Aleris wants to tone down the scope, despite the company marketing 3 different types of health checks. – Health surveys are a marginal part of our business, she says. The same goes for Volvat, which also markets such checks. Marketing and Communications Director there, Mille Henriksen in Volvat, says they have not noticed any significant increase in the area. – We do not use body scan with ultrasound. We assess the need for investigations based on a personal conversation. There we focus, among other things, on lifestyle and preventive health. The clinic Check health has not responded to our inquiries. The Medical Association Critical Ketil St\u00f8rdal is a spokesperson for the campaign makes wise choices in the Norwegian Medical Association. He believes it is an almost insatiable market for such health surveys. And he is critical that they are performed on otherwise healthy people. – We quickly get so -called “false positive tests”. There are tests that show something unusual, but that do not matter. Ketil St\u00f8rdal is a spokesperson for the campaign “Makes wise choices” in the Medical Association. He believes private health checks can work against his purpose and unnecessarily charge the health care system. Photo: Credited \u00d8ystein Horgmo, UiO. \/ \u00a9 The University of Oslo According to St\u00f8rdal, this in turn can lead to several rounds of surveys, which will further strain a hard -pressed health care system. – Joint benefits in the health care system are used here to clarify random findings that emerge from the screening. It can also lead to skewed distribution of common goods if someone can buy into a health queue in this way. St\u00f8rdal believes such tests can in some cases work directly against their purpose. – It can lead to the use of more risky medical tests and then find that it was a false alarm. Gunnar Austad rejects this. He thinks the private offer rather relieves the public health system. He emphasizes that the health checks are paid by the patients themselves. Patient Per Nyst\u00f8l is pleased with today’s check. He would like to take a new one at a later date. – It is to be a bit on the safe side. And I am comfortable with prioritizing this. Patient Per Nyst\u00f8l took a private health examination with ultrasound to be on the safe side. Photo: Erik Wiig Andersen \/ news Published 12.03.2025, at. 11.46
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