The symposium titled “Reducing age-related risks by health screening/Ningen dock!?” was held at the 45th annual meeting of the Japan Society of Health Evaluation and Promotion. Experts from the Japan Society of Health Evaluation and the Japanese Society of Anti-Aging Medicine explained the latest results on extending healthy life expectancy and achieving “successful aging” from the perspective of both general health screening and specialized anti-aging checkups.
 Japan is already a super aging society, and the proportion of elderly people is steadily increasing year by year. Thus, the need for “primary prevention” from age-related diseases through health screening is growing. Anti-aging checkups can offer specialized examinations to detect early signs of age-related changes such as vascular, hormonal, oxidative stress-induced and body composition changes, and help people reduce age-related risks with specialists in anti-aging medicine.
 Since its foundation in June 2006, Tokai University Tokyo Hospital has conducted anti-aging checkups of over 1,900 examinees. Analysis of the health data from these checkups over a decade reveals that some age-related factors including adiponectin and dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEA-S) did not deteriorate, or even improved. Sarcopenic obesity is defined as a normal BMI with excessive body fat. Another analysis of the anti-aging checkup examinees reveals that those with sarcopenic obesity had equally elevated risks for lifestyle-related diseases as obese people because of aging-associated changes in body composition. These results validate our anti-aging checkup, and suggest that health screening/Ningen dock can reduce age-related risks.