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121. Final Research Plan: Unhealthy Drug Use: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/drug-use-illicit-screening
     October 20, 2016 - What are the harms of interventions to reduce drug use in screen-detected persons? … to primary care (e.g., psychiatric inpatients, persons who are court-mandated to receive treatment, … persons who are incarcerated) KQs 4, 5: Persons with dependent drug use (or studies in which >50% … of the enrolled sample is persons with dependent drug use) Screening KQs 1, 3: Screening … for drug use using a brief standardized instrument or set of questions that is conducted in person or

122. Screening for Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     August 24, 2021 - younger than 60 years, in persons with a BMI of 35 or greater, in persons with a fasting plasma glucose … problems (<1% per group), and 1 study (the DPP) found higher rates of musculoskeletal symptoms per 100 person … the intensive lifestyle intervention group than in the con- trol group (24.1 vs 21.1 events per 100 person-years … prediabetes and type 2 diabetes are due to social fac- tors and not biological ones, and incorporated person-first … language when referring to persons who have overweight or obesity.

123. Screening for Impaired Visual Acuity (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2022 - It does not apply to persons who have reported signs and symptoms of vision loss, seek care for vision … The prevalence of impaired visual acuity is higher among persons of lower socioeconomic or educational … there is limited evidence that primary care–based screening for impaired visual acuity is beneficial in persons … Impaired visual acuity is associated with decreased quality of life in older persons, including reduced

124. Archived: Lung Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/lung-cancer-screening-december-2013
     December 31, 2013 - Screening should be discontinued once a person has not smoked for 15 years or develops a health problem … The magnitude of benefit to the person depends on that person's risk for lung cancer because those who … Screening should be discontinued once the person has not smoked for 15 years. … The USPSTF recommends discontinuing screening if a person develops a health problem that substantially … Harms were measured as number of total LDCT screenings per 100,000 persons and per person, number of

125. Recommendation: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     May 10, 2022 - It does not apply to persons with symptoms such as chronic cough, sputum production, difficulty breathing … It does not apply to populations at very high risk for COPD, such as persons with α-1 antitrypsin deficiency … The USPSTF has recommendations that address tobacco smoking cessation in adults, including pregnant persons … One large randomized clinical trial (SUMMIT; n = 16,590) in persons with or at risk for cardiovascular … The harms of screening in and treatment of persons with asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic COPD.

126. Screening for Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: US Preventive Services Task Force Final Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     April 17, 2023 - POPULATION Pregnant persons without a known diagnosis of a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy or chronic … Asymptomatic pregnant persons BThe USPSTF recommends screening for hypertensive disorders in pregnant … persons with blood pressure measurements throughout pregnancy. … • Gestational hypertension is new-onset hypertension after the 20th week of gestation in a person with … Pregnant persons: To whom does this recommendation apply? What’s new?

127. Final Research Plan: Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/hypertensive-disorders-pregnancy-screening
     September 02, 2021 - How effective are different screening programs for identifying persons with hypertensive disorders of … Category Inclusion criteria Exclusion criteria Populations Pregnant and postpartum persons … those at increased risk for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy Studies limited to: Pregnant persons … Nongeneralizable populations limited to select populations requiring specialized prenatal care (e.g., persons … of testing Personalization of screening based on risk assessment Programs for monitoring persons

128. Final Research Plan: Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/unhealthy-alcohol-use-in-adolescents-and-adults-screening-and-behavioral-counseling-interventions
     October 20, 2016 - What are the harms of interventions to reduce unhealthy alcohol use in screen-detected persons? … with concomitant psychotic disorders (e.g., schizophrenia) Persons presenting in an emergency setting … who are court-mandated to treatment, persons who are incarcerated ) KQs 4, 5: Persons with dependent … alcohol abuse (or studies in which >50% of the enrolled sample is persons with dependent alcohol use … Screening for alcohol use using a brief standardized instrument or set of questions that is conducted in person

129. Primary Care–Based Interventions to Prevent Illicit Drug Use in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: USPSTF Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     May 26, 2020 - Preventive Services Task Force Summary of Recommendation Importance In 2017, an estimated 7.9% of persons … including motor vehicle crashes, suicide, and homicide.3 IMPORTANCE In 2017, an estimated 7.9% of persons … Children, adoles- cents, and young persons who are regular users of illicit drugs (at least once per … Half of the interventions (50%) were individual counseling ses- sions (in person or by telephone), 21% … This includes persons who have never used drugs as well as those with early or experimental use.

130. Archived: Final Research Plan: Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan142/obstructive-sleep-apnea-in-adults-screening-january-2017
     October 30, 2014 - accuracy of currently existing clinical prediction tools or screening questionnaires in identifying persons … using a questionnaire or prediction tool followed by overnight home-based oximetry, in identifying persons … with unrecognized symptoms of OSA KQs 3, 7: Asymptomatic adults, persons with unrecognized symptoms … of OSA, and referral populations KQs 4–6, 8: Persons with a confirmed diagnosis of OSA;  population … at increased, average, or decreased risk, or persons at higher and lower risk of OSA KQ 3: Studies

131. Final Research Plan: Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/screening-for-prediabetes-and-type-2-diabetes
     November 15, 2018 - with a recent hospitalization; persons with a recent myocardial infarction; persons taking antipsychotics … or glucocorticoids; persons with known cardiovascular disease or severe chronic kidney disease; persons … living in an institution; other persons with medical conditions limiting their applicability to primary … insulin or other medications; persons with proliferative retinopathy, nephropathy) Screening … who meet criteria for impaired fasting glucose or impaired glucose tolerance and persons with an A1c

132. Recommendation: Intimate Partner Violence and Caregiver Abuse of Older or Vulnerable Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/intimate-partner-violence-and-abuse-of-elderly-and-vulnerable-adults-screening
     June 24, 2025 - or former spouse or dating partner. 1 , 9 Abuse of older adults refers to acts whereby a trusted person … of false-positive results (eg, labeling and stigma). 1 Studies of harms were primarily conducted in person … control group. 1 , 35 In 1 study, IPV events were lower in the intervention group (7.50 events per person-year … ) compared with the control group (9.55 events per person-year) at 3 years, but the difference was not … statistically significant (incident rate ratio of average IPV events per person-year, 0.86 [95% CI,

133. Screening for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adults: Clinical Summary of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - PREVENTIVE SERVICES TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATION Population Persons at high risk for infection and … Screening Interval Persons with continued risk for HCV infection (such as injection drug users) should … Evidence on how often screening should occur in these persons is lacking. … Adults born between 1945 and 1965 and persons who are at risk because of potential exposure before universal … the basis of the accuracy of HCV antibody testing and the availability of effective interventions for persons

134. Archived: Oral Cancer: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - Recommendation Summary Population Recommendation Grade Asymptomatic persons … There is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening of asymptomatic persons … About half of all oropharyngeal cancers and the majority of deaths from this disease occur in persons … who chew or smoke tobacco (or did so previously), older persons who drink regularly, and anyone with … Appropriate counseling should be offered to those persons who smoke cigarettes, pipes, or cigars, those

135. Archived: High Blood Cholesterol and Other Lipid Abnormalities: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/high-cholesterol-other-lipid-abnormalities-screening-1996
     January 01, 1996 - diets in asymptomatic persons has proven difficult. … For high-risk persons (middle-aged persons with high cholesterol or multiple nonlipid risk factors for … Cholesterol and heart disease in older persons and women: review of an NHLBI workshop. … Randomised controlled trial in northern England of the effect of a person knowing their own serum cholesterol … HDL cholesterol predicts coronary heart disease mortality in older persons.

136. Archived: Syphilis Infection: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/syphilis-infection-screening-2004
     July 15, 2004 - at Increased Risk The USPSTF strongly recommends that clinicians screen persons at increased risk … A Asymptomatic Persons, Not at Increased Risk The USPSTF recommends against routine screening … of asymptomatic persons who are not at increased risk for syphilis infection. … The USPSTF concludes that the benefits of screening persons at increased risk for syphilis infection … The optimal screening interval in average- and high-risk persons has not been determined.

137. Final Recommendation Statement: Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/RecommendationStatementFinal/obstructive-sleep-apnea-in-adults-screening
     November 15, 2022 - This includes persons who are not aware of their symptoms or do not report symptoms as being a concern … This recommendation does not apply to persons presenting with symptoms or concerns about OSA, persons … Care of these persons should be managed as clinically appropriate. … This recommendation also does not apply to children, adolescents, or pregnant persons. … with White persons; some evidence suggests that these differences are partially explained by higher

138. Uhtgkzvs Bpnj4 G4Fxuay (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2014 - Screening should be discontinued once a person has not smoked for 15 years or develops a health problem … Screening should be discontinued once a person has not smoked for 15 years or develops a health problem … The magnitude of benefit to the person depends on that person’s risk for lung cancer because those who … Screening should be discontinued once the person has not smoked for 15 years. … Harms were measured as the number of total LDCT screenings per 100 000 persons and per person, number

139. Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2021 - and non- Black persons, which include the risk factors of age, cholesterol lev- els, systolic blood … The risk prediction equations generally show higher risk for Black persons than White persons.6 The … the expected benefit for persons with a 10-year CVD risk of 7.5% to less than 10%. … use more than 2 times higher than among those without dia- betes (76.1 and 34.5 initiators per 1000 person-years … Cholesterol lowering in intermediate-risk persons without cardiovascular disease.

140. Screening for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     May 10, 2022 - screening in individuals who do not recognize or report respiratory symptoms; studies of treatment in persons … Evidence of pharmacologic treatment was still largely limited to persons with moderate airflow obstruction … for a range of nonpharmacologic interventions in mild to moderate COPD or in minimally symptomatic persons … spirometry based on systematically assessing for symptoms, risk factors, or both) for COPD can detect persons … with COPD Signal for benefit of tiotropium on exacerbations in minimally symptomatic persons Harms