Major preventive medicine recommendations for men

• Colorectal cancer screening beginning at age 50 (age 45 for African-American men)
• Screening for type 2 diabetes for individuals with high blood pressure or cholesterol
• Abdominal ultrasound to assess for aortic aneurysm at age 65 years or older in men who have smoked cigarettes
• CT lung screening in certain smoking patients (men age 55 to 74 who smoked one pack a day for 30 years or two packs a day for 15 years)
• Annual influenza vaccine
• Pneumococcal vaccine in smokers age 65 and older, or patients age 19 to 64 with any of the following: asthma, diabetes, alcoholism, lung, heart or liver disease
• Shingles vaccine at age 60 years and older