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21. Chien-Wen Tseng, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.E.E. | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    September 01, 2016 - for 10 years on the “Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes” project, a study in six States to measure

22. Archived: Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/obesity-in-children-and-adolescents-screening-2010
    January 15, 2010 - 1995. 1 Detection Previously, the USPSTF found adequate evidence that BMI was an acceptable measure … Screening Tests In 2005, the USPSTF found adequate evidence that BMI was an acceptable measure for … children and adolescents, because it is feasible and reliable and because it tracks with adult obesity measures … having a BMI at ≥95th percentile for age and gender. 12 , 13 BMI-for-age percentile is not a direct measure … Limited evidence suggests that reductions in insulin-resistance measures are possible with moderate-

23. Vc8Slesu493Dfqmmkadxgl (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2003 - techniques, such as bioelectrical impedance, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, and total body water can measure … Clinicians may use the waist circumference as a measure of central adiposity. … The BMI is easy to measure, highly reliable, and highly correlated with percentage of body fat 4 … Body mass index as a measure of body fatness: age- and sex-specific prediction formulas. … Body mass index as a measure of body fatness in the elderly.

24. Archived: Obesity in Adults: Screening and Counseling, 2003 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/obesity-in-adults-screening-and-counseling-2003
    November 03, 2003 - techniques, such as bioelectrical impedance, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, and total body water can measure … Clinicians may use the waist circumference as a measure of central adiposity. … The BMI is easy to measure, highly reliable, and highly correlated with percentage of body fat and body … Body mass index as a measure of body fatness: age- and sex-specific prediction formulas. … Body mass index as a measure of body fatness in the elderly.

25. Screening for Peripheral Artery Disease and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment with Ankle Brachial Index in Adults (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2013 - The Task Force also did not find any evidence that combining an ABI score with the traditional measure … of determining heart disease risk is better than the traditional measure alone or that it improves

26. Screening for Peripheral Artery Disease and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment with Ankle Brachial Index in Adults (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2013 - The Task Force also did not find any evidence that combining an ABI score with the traditional measure … of determining heart disease risk is better than the traditional measure alone or that it improves

27. Archived: Screening and Interventions for Childhood Obesity: Where Is the Evidence? A Commentary by the Childhood Obesity Working Group of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Screening, July 2005 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/screening-and-interventions-for-childhood-obesity-where-is-t/obesity-in-children-and-adolescents-screening-2005
    July 11, 2005 - Physicians also seem to take high BMI more seriously than weight and height measures; 2 when documentation … It is important to note that the USPSTF did not recommend that primary care clinicians not weigh and measure … Although BMI is a convenient and widely agreed-upon measure of obesity, it is not clear what BMI at any … screening (and intervention) for overweight in childhood improves age-appropriate behavioral or physiologic measures … interventions lead to improved intermediate outcomes, including behavioral, physiologic or weight-related measures

28. Screening and Interventions for Overweight in Children and Adolescents: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2005 - The USPSTF found fair evidence that body mass index (BMI) is a reasonable measure for identifying children … Clinical Considerations • It is important to measure and monitor growth over time in all children … weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) percentile for age and sex is the preferred measure … Single BMI measures track reasonably well from childhood and adolescence (aged 6-18 years) into young … Use of the body mass index (BMI) as a measure of overweight in children and adolescents.

29. Archived: Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Screening, July 2005 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/obesity-in-children-and-adolescents-screening-2005
    July 11, 2005 - The USPSTF found fair evidence that body mass index (BMI) is a reasonable measure for identifying children … Clinical Considerations It is important to measure … weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) percentile for age and sex is the preferred measure … Single BMI measures track reasonably well from childhood and adolescence (aged 6-18 years) into young … Use of the body mass index (BMI) as a measure of overweight in children and adolescents.

30. Draft Research Plan: Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adolescents and Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/syphilis-infection-nonpregnant-adults-adolescents-1
    November 19, 2020 - Complications of syphilis infection and transmission or acquisition of STIs, including HIV KQ 2: Any measure

31. Evidence Summary: Child Maltreatment: Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/child-maltreatment-primary-care-interventions
    November 27, 2018 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Direct measures (including reports to child protective services and removal … Studies needed to report at least 1 direct or proxy measure of abuse or neglect to be eligible. … Child Development as Measured by the Bayley Scales of Child Development. … Four trials 21 , 22 , 26-32 , 34 reported on child development as measured by the Bayley Scales of Child … one intervention may not be readily generalizable to other (pediatric practice) settings Bayley Scales

32. Archived: Evidence Summary: Child Maltreatment: Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/child-maltreatment-primary-care-interventions-november-2018
    November 27, 2018 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Direct measures (including reports to child protective services and removal … Studies needed to report at least 1 direct or proxy measure of abuse or neglect to be eligible. … Child Development as Measured by the Bayley Scales of Child Development. … Four trials 21 , 22 , 26-32 , 34 reported on child development as measured by the Bayley Scales of Child … one intervention may not be readily generalizable to other (pediatric practice) settings Bayley Scales

33. Evidence Summary: Prevention of Child Maltreatment: Primary Care Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/child-maltreatment-primary-care-interventions
    March 19, 2024 - Direct or Proxy Measures of Child Maltreatment Reports to Child Protective Services. … demonstrate benefit for the active intervention group(s), regardless of the specificity of the outcome measure … Child Development as Measured by the Bayley Scales of Child Development. … RCTs 14 , 18 , 21 , 23 , 38 , 39 , 43 , 45-48 reported on child development as measured by the Bayley Scales … one intervention may not be readily generalizable to other (pediatric practice) settings Bayley Scales

34. Final Research Plan: Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adolescents and Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/syphilis-infection-nonpregnant-adults-adolescents-screening
    January 28, 2021 - Complications of syphilis infection and transmission or acquisition of STIs, including HIV KQ 2: Any measure

35. doi:10.1016/S0749-3797(03)00122-3 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2003 - When performed correctly, sphygmomanometry provides a measure of blood pressure that is highly correlated … Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring provides a measure of average blood pressure over 24 hours as opposed … www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension/jncintro.htm studies found that ambulatory blood pressure measure … clinical cardiovascular outcome than clinic-based approach- es.15–17 Another review found blood pressure measure … How to measure blood pressure. JAMA 1995;273:1211–8. 13. McAlister FA, Straus SE.

36. Archived: C-Reactive Protein as a Risk Factor for Coronary Heart Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Coronary Heart Disease: Screening Using Non-Traditional Risk Factors | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    July 15, 2008 - In particular, they did not systematically assess the degree of adjustment for standard measures of CHD … , discrimination measures, or model calibration statistics separately for models with and without CRP … They note that measures of risk reclassification are probably better than the c-statistic for assessing … Using data from the Women's Health Study, Cook and colleagues 23 demonstrated that although measures … Non-HDL cholesterol, apolipoproteins A-I and B100, standard lipid measures, lipid ratios, and CRP as

37. Archived: C-Reactive Protein as a Risk Factor for Coronary Heart Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Coronary Heart Disease: Screening Using Non-Traditional Risk Factors | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/c-reactive-protein-as-a-risk-factor-for-coronary-heart-disease-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analyses-for-the-us-preventive-services-task-force/coronary-heart-disease-screening-using-non-traditional-risk-factors-2009
    July 15, 2008 - In particular, they did not systematically assess the degree of adjustment for standard measures of CHD … , discrimination measures, or model calibration statistics separately for models with and without CRP … They note that measures of risk reclassification are probably better than the c-statistic for assessing … Using data from the Women's Health Study, Cook and colleagues 23 demonstrated that although measures … Non-HDL cholesterol, apolipoproteins A-I and B100, standard lipid measures, lipid ratios, and CRP as

38. Primary Care Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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    March 19, 2024 - - strate benefit for the active intervention group(s), regardless of the specificity of the outcome measure … -21,31,39-43,49 The evidence included substan- tial heterogeneity in the timing and type of outcome measure … Child Development as Measured by the Bayley Scales of Child Development | Four RCTs14,18,21,23,38,39,43,45 … -48 reported on child de- velopment as measured by the Bayley Scales of Child Develop- ment (eTables … factors; one intervention may not be readily generalizable to other (pediatric practice) settings Bayley Scales

39. Screening for Overweight in Children and Adolescents: Where Is the Evidence? (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2005 - is important to note that the USPSTF did not recommend that primary care clinicians not weigh and measure … Although BMI is a convenient and widely agreed-upon measure of obesity, it is not clear what BMI at … screening for overweight in children/adolescents improves age-appropriate behavioral or physiologic measures … interventions lead to improved intermediate outcomes, including behavioral, physiologic or weight-related measures … screening for overweight in children/adolescents improves age-appropriate behavioral or physiologic measures

40. Evidence Gaps Research Taxonomy Table: Primary Care Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Support Breastfeeding (pdf file)
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    March 18, 2025 - The direct effects of breastfeeding interventions on breastfeeding measures, short- and medium-term … maternal and child health outcomes, and the relationship between breastfeeding measures and these … Relationship between breastfeeding measures and health outcomes. … Relationship between breastfeeding measures and health outcomes. … is typically derived from RCTs of the targeted screening or preventive intervention that adequately measure