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61. Clinician Summary of USPSTF Recommendation: Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2021 - • Screening tests for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes include measurement of fasting plasma glucose

62. Evidence Summary: Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary1/osteoporosis-screening
    June 26, 2018 - The accuracy of bone measurement tests to identify osteoporosis varied (area under the curve [AUC], 0.32 … Does screening (clinical risk assessment, bone density measurement, or both) for osteoporotic fracture … Bone Measurement Tests Twenty-three studies evaluated the accuracy of various bone measurement tests … Although results from studies of accuracy of bone measurement tests or clinical risk assessments for … Fracture risk assessment without bone density measurement in routine clinical practice.

63. Archived: Evidence Summary: Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary1/osteoporosis-screening-june-2018
    June 26, 2018 - The accuracy of bone measurement tests to identify osteoporosis varied (area under the curve [AUC], 0.32 … Does screening (clinical risk assessment, bone density measurement, or both) for osteoporotic fracture … Bone Measurement Tests Twenty-three studies evaluated the accuracy of various bone measurement tests … Although results from studies of accuracy of bone measurement tests or clinical risk assessments for … Fracture risk assessment without bone density measurement in routine clinical practice.

64. Screening for Iron Deficiency Anemia and Iron Supplementation in Pregnant Women to Improve Maternal Health and Birth Outcomes: Clinical Summary (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2015 - Screening Tests Although the evidence is insufficient to recommend specific tests for screening, measurement

65. Screening for and Management of Obesity in Adults: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation (pdf file)
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    June 19, 2012 - Recent evidence suggests that waist circumference may be an acceptable alternative to BMI measurement

66. Screening for Gestational Diabetes: Clinician Summary for USPSTF Recommendation (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2021 - • Fasting plasma glucose measurement. How often?

67. Screening for Skin Cancer (pdf file)
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    June 15, 2017 - Screening Tests BMI measurement, using height and weight, is the recommended screening test for obesity

68. Screening for Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Clinical Summary (pdf file)
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    August 02, 2016 - Direct LDL-C measurement does not require fasting.

69. Screening for Prostate Cancer: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation (2012) (pdf file)
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    May 15, 2012 - Screening Tests Contemporary recommendations for prostate cancer screening all incorporate the measurement

70. Announcement of New U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Chair | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    April 10, 2015 - Siu serves as a senior associate editor of Health Services Research, and his research focuses on the measurement

71. Archived: Preeclampsia: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/preeclampsia-screening-april-2017
    April 25, 2017 - The patient should be relaxed prior to measurement. … Review In 1996, the USPSTF recommended screening for preeclampsia using office-based blood pressure measurement … Blood-pressure measurement and classification in pregnancy. Lancet . 2001;357(9250):131-5. 15. … Recommendations for blood pressure measurement in humans and experimental animals, part 1: blood pressure … measurement in humans: a statement for professionals from the Subcommittee of Professional and Public

72. Archived: High Blood Cholesterol and Other Lipid Abnormalities: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    January 01, 1996 - C Asymptomatic persons There is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine measurement … Due to normal physiologic variation and measurement error, a single measurement may not reflect the patient's … A single cholesterol measurement underestimates the risk of coronary heart disease. … Recommendations for improving cholesterol measurement. … Motivational effects of cholesterol measurement in general practice health checks.

73. Archived: Postmenopausal Osteoporosis: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    January 01, 1996 - times (5-10 vs. 20-40 minutes) than DPA. 20-22 The precision of DXA (variation in results on repeated measurement … influences treatment decisions, and that women appreciate the more precise estimates of risk provided by BMD measurement … treatment strategies. 40 , 52 Although routine screening may not be appropriate for asymptomatic women, measurement … Clinical indications for bone mass measurement[s]. … [Measurement of bone density with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry.]

74. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Folic Acid to Prevent Neural Tube Defects: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary25/folic-acid-to-prevent-neural-tube-defects-preventive-medication
    May 15, 2009 - biases, had response rates of 88% among both case patients and control participants, applied exposure measurement … visits, "tick-off" form for basal body temperature before conception, and counting unused tablets; measurement … Retrospective exposure assessment poses potential recall bias; differential measurement of exposure causes … potential measurement bias; lower response rate in control participants; no adjustment for smoking. … Measurement validity issues: exposure measured at 10 weeks; reported folic acid use in this study was

75. Folic Acid Supplementation for the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects: An Update of the Evidence (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2009 - congenital abnormalities: adjusted OR, 0.71 (CI, 0.33–1.50) conception, and counting unused tablets; measurement … 636 5 May 2009 Annals of Internal Medicine Volume 150 • Number 9 www.annals.org applied exposure measurement … Retrospective exposure assessment poses potential recall bias; differential measurement of exposure causes … potential measurement bias; lower response rate in control participants; no adjustment for smoking. … Measurement validity issues: exposure measured at 10 weeks; reported folic acid use in this study was

76. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Folic Acid to Prevent Neural Tube Defects: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary25/folic-acid-to-prevent-neural-tube-defects-preventive-medication-2009
    May 15, 2009 - biases, had response rates of 88% among both case patients and control participants, applied exposure measurement … visits, "tick-off" form for basal body temperature before conception, and counting unused tablets; measurement … Retrospective exposure assessment poses potential recall bias; differential measurement of exposure causes … potential measurement bias; lower response rate in control participants; no adjustment for smoking. … Measurement validity issues: exposure measured at 10 weeks; reported folic acid use in this study was

77. Final Research Plan: High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/blood-pressure-in-children-and-adolescents-hypertension-screening
    November 01, 2018 - on established normative thresholds) KQ 2: Index test consisting of at least one blood pressure measurement … pressure or hypertension after additional diagnostic workup (e.g., 24-hour or ambulatory blood pressure measurement

78. Recommendation: High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/blood-pressure-in-children-and-adolescents-hypertension-screening
    November 10, 2020 - equal to or above the 95th percentile based on age, height, and sex or above 130/80 mm Hg, whichever measurement … of 130/80 to 139/89 mm Hg, and stage 2 hypertension is defined as a blood pressure measurement above … Current Practice Current practice for blood pressure screening typically involves measurement in office-based … Several organizations recommend routine measurement of blood pressure at well child visits starting at … Reliability of resting blood pressure measurement and classification using an oscillometric device in

79. Evidence Summary: Screening for Dyslipidemia in Younger Adults: Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary-dyslipidemia/statin-use-in-adults-preventive-medication
    November 13, 2016 - comparable groups for cohort studies: consideration of potential confounders with either restriction or measurement … assembled initially and maintained throughout the study (follow-up at least 80%); reliable and valid measurement … some question remains as to whether some (although not major) differences occurred with follow-up; measurement … initially are not close to being comparable or maintained throughout the study; unreliable or invalid measurement … : Total or LDL cholesterol alone or in combination with HDL cholesterol, with or without measurement

80. Archived: Evidence Summary: Screening for Dyslipidemia in Younger Adults: Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary-dyslipidemia/statin-use-in-adults-preventive-medication-november-2016
    November 13, 2016 - comparable groups for cohort studies: consideration of potential confounders with either restriction or measurement … assembled initially and maintained throughout the study (follow-up at least 80%); reliable and valid measurement … some question remains as to whether some (although not major) differences occurred with follow-up; measurement … initially are not close to being comparable or maintained throughout the study; unreliable or invalid measurement … : Total or LDL cholesterol alone or in combination with HDL cholesterol, with or without measurement