India, Sept. 29 -- justify;">The illusion of "I am fine" create dangerous complacency after individuals undergo health checks which inform them that their overall health parameters are normal. However, muscle loss due to sedentary lifestyle, insulin resistance, and pathological visceral fat can accumulate for years before any standard medical test or blood marker turns abnormal.

A bloop pressure (BP) reading in a doctor's office may be normal, but absence of nocturnal BP dip or early morning BP surge, psychosocial stress-induced BP rise or BP elevation during periods of obstructive sleep apnoea (masked hypertension) are the first indicators of hypertension-induced complications.

A normal resting electrocardiogram (ECG) may hide underlyi...