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421. Archived: Aspirin Use to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease and Colorectal Cancer: Preventive Medication, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - diseases was estimated at $117.4 billion in 1990. 2 MI and sudden death often occur without warning in persons … Both the American and British trials observed an increase in the incidence of stroke among persons taking … , gastritis, and peptic ulcer disease. 8 The likelihood of these side effects in otherwise healthy persons … The success of aspirin prophylaxis in persons who have documented disease (secondary prevention) is felt … by some to support the practice of prescribing aspirin in asymptomatic, high-risk persons.

422. Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: Screening and Counseling Draft Recommendation Statement | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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423. Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Draft Evidence Review | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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424. 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 - CRP) may help to refine global risk assessment for coronary heart disease (CHD), particularly among persons … Few studies directly assessed the effect of CRP on risk reclassification in intermediate-risk persons … Further stratification by using new markers might reclassify some intermediate-risk persons as low-risk … This would permit more aggressive risk reduction therapy in persons reclassified as high-risk and may … Reclassification of Persons at Intermediate Risk From a clinical perspective, the most meaningful

425. Archived: Lung Cancer: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - Recommendation Summary Population Recommendation Grade Asymptomatic persons … Routine screening of asymptomatic persons for lung cancer with chest radiography or sputum cytology … lung cancer. 7 Other studies have confirmed a low yield of performing chest x-rays on asymptomatic persons … A controlled prospective study involving over 55,000 persons found that those receiving chest x-rays … In this study, persons receiving chest x-rays and sputum cytology every 4 months had the same lung cancer

426. Nfp93-Hva3Bvxkvkbsttgm (pdf file)
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     needs additional evidence to create the strongest recommendations for everyone and especially for persons … Topic: Research Gaps for Screening for Syphilis Infection in Pregnant Persons Research Gap Key Questions … www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/syphilis-infection-pregnant-persons … currently have high burden of disease (for example, Black, Hispanic, and Native American/Alaska Native persons … rates of congenital syphilis (for example, Black, Hispanic, and Native American/Alaska Native persons

427. Archived: Evidence Summary: Hepatitis B Virus Infection: Screening, 2014 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     May 27, 2014 - for 47% to 95% of chronically infected persons 4–7 . … Persons at high risk for HBV infection include household contacts or sexual partners of persons with … Other groups recommend screening high-risk persons 7 , 9 . … reported clinical outcomes or the sensitivity and number needed to screen (NNS) to identify 1 HBV-infected person … reported clinical outcomes or the sensitivity and number needed to screen (NNS) to identify 1 HBV-infected person

428. Archived: Skin Cancer: Counseling, 2012 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     May 15, 2012 - The incidence of melanoma has been increasing among white Americans, from 8.7 per 100,000 persons in … Benefits of Behavioral Counseling Interventions For children, adolescents, and young adults (persons … It is more than 20 times more common in white than in African American persons, but can occur in all … Sunscreen Use One randomized, controlled trial found that persons who regularly used sunscreen had … In the current review, the USPSTF notes the significant studies done in young persons that, although

429. Vision in Children Ages 6 Months to 5 Years: Screening Draft Research Plan | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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430. Clinical Summary: Interventions to Prevent Perinatal Depression (pdf file)
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     Clinical Summary: Interventions to Prevent Perinatal Depression Population Pregnant and postpartum persons … Recommendation Provide or refer persons at increased risk of perinatal depression to counseling

431. Screening for Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adults and Adolescents: Clinical Summary (pdf file)
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     Grade: A Risk Assessment Men who have sex with men and persons living with HIV have the highest … concludes with high certainty that the net benefit of screening for syphilis infection in nonpregnant persons

432. Archived: Hepatitis B Virus Infection: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - or with persons at high risk for HBV infection (e.g., injection drug users) sexual contact with multiple … multiple partners, sharing needles among injection drug users, donating blood products) in infected persons … Sexual contacts and persons with possible percutaneous exposure may also be identified in the process … The effectiveness of routine screening of asymptomatic persons in the clinical setting as a means of … as an intervention, current data are insufficient to recommend its use in asymptomatic HBV-infected persons

433. Archived: Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 15, 2009 - There is convincing evidence that screening with a visual acuity test identifies persons with refractive … Prevalence of vision impairment increases with age and ranges from 1% in persons age 65 to 69 years to … 17% in persons older than 80 years. 3 Uncorrected refractive errors, cataracts, and AMD are the most … with myopia and 86% to 96% of persons with hyperopia achieving visual acuity of 20/40 or better. … A randomized trial of office-based screening for common problems in older persons.

434. Archived: Suicide Risk in Adolescents, Adults and Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     May 20, 2014 - Given that most persons who die by suicide have a psychiatric disorder and many have been seen recently … American Indians and Alaskan natives aged 14 to 65 years and non-Hispanic white persons older than 18 … years have higher-than-average rates of suicide death, and the risk among non-Hispanic white persons … Persons who attempt suicide and survive and those who die by suicide are overlapping populations. … Targeting persons at high risk, such as American Indians and Hispanic persons, may help determine whether

435. Archived: Sexually Transmitted Infections: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     September 22, 2014 - Half of these cases occur in persons aged 15 to 24 years. … Sexually transmitted infections are frequently asymptomatic, which leads persons to unknowingly transmit … living in urban settings, current or former inmates, military recruits, persons who exchange sex for … money or drugs, persons with mental illness or a disability, current or former intravenous drug users … , persons with a history of sexual abuse, and patients at public STI clinics.

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     February 01, 2015 - Persons with BP in the high-normal range, older persons, those with an above-normal body mass index, … years) than in younger persons (aged 18 to 40 or 45 years). … Although incidence was also 2-fold higher in overweight persons and 3-fold higher in obese persons compared … rather than measurement of all persons at every office visit. … Black persons had a consistently higher incidence of hypertension at rescreening than white persons.

437. Evidence Summary: Bladder Cancer in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     October 15, 2010 - The positive predictive value of screening is less than 10% in asymptomatic persons, including higher-risk … The target population was asymptomatic persons older than 50 years. … A case-control study found that persons who died of bladder cancer had lower odds of having received … (5 of 1096) 24  and 0.7% of persons (17 of 2356) 25 . … (KQ 1) 3 poor-quality observational studies No inception cohort of similar unscreened persons

438. Archived: Skin Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 26, 2016 - evidence) Risk Assessment Skin cancer occurs more commonly in men than in women and among persons … with a fair complexion, persons who use indoor tanning beds, and persons with a history of sunburns … Assessment of Risk Skin cancer of any type occurs more commonly in men than in women and among persons … with a fair complexion, persons who use indoor tanning beds, and persons with a history of sunburns … with a disease awareness campaign may result in, at most, 1 fewer death due to melanoma per 100,000 persons

439. Clinical Summary: Behavioral Counseling to Prevent Skin Cancer (pdf file)
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     Persons with fair skin type (light hair and eye color, freckles, those who sunburn easily) are at increased … Persons who use tanning beds and those with a history of sunburns or previous skin cancer are also at

440. Screening for Lung Cancer: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation (pdf file)
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     computed tomography has high sensitivity and acceptable specificity for detecting lung cancer in high-risk persons … screening for lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography is of moderate net benefit in asymptomatic persons