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241. Recommendation: Unhealthy Drug Use: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 09, 2020 - Intensive interventions usually involve several in-person sessions over several weeks or months. … Retention in treatment varied considerably in persons assigned to naltrexone (range, 7%-60%) and persons … were generally based on established behavioral approaches and were administered by telephone or in person … Most brief interventions consisted of a single, personalized counseling session with in-person or computer-based … feedback, with or without a telephone or in-person booster session.

242. JAMA (pdf file)
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     June 09, 2020 - Intensive interventions usually involve several in-person sessions over several weeks or months. … Retention in treatment varied considerably in persons assigned to naltrexone (range, 7%-60%) and persons … were administered by telephone or in person by researchers or were self-administered by computer. … Most brief interventions consisted of a single, per- sonalized counseling session with in-person or computer-based … feedback, with or without a telephone or in-person booster ses- sion.

243. Draft Research Plan: Breastfeeding: Primary Care Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 10, 2022 - individual-level interventions to support breastfeeding improve health outcomes for the child or lactating person … intervention duration, number of intervention sessions, and whether the intervention included any in-person … Category Included Excluded Population * Lactating adolescents or adults or persons providing … their special feeding needs Studies limited to special populations of individuals or infants (e.g., persons … of specific and detailed information on gender and sex, we will use gender neutral language (e.g., persons

244. Screening for Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation (pdf file)
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     January 14, 2025 - Prevalence of osteoporosis is higher among persons 65 years or older (27.1% in women and 5.7% in men) … It does not ap- ply to persons with secondary osteoporosis due to an underlying medical condition (eg … will always be lower than for White persons of the same age, sex, weight, BMD, and clini- cal risk … It is also unclear which version of FRAX to use for persons who are multiracial, or im- migrants from … They do not apply to persons with secondary osteoporosis due to an underlying medical condition (eg,

245. 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 - 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

246. 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

247. Evidence Summary: Genital Herpes Infection: Serologic Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     February 14, 2023 - whereas HSV-2 infection is typically limited to the anogenital region. 1 In asymptomatic, seropositive persons … Studies of persons with HIV or other immunosuppressive conditions were also not eligible for this review … studies published since the 2016 recommendation against screening for genital herpes in a symptomatic persons … recommends serologic screening for specific asymptomatic populations at higher risk for infection (eg, persons

248. Aspirin for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Colorectal Cancer: A Decision Analysis for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2016 - This annual-cycle microsimulation model was parameterized to estimate the person-level natural his- tory … Time Horizon The primary time horizon is over a lifetime, which we defined at the person level as the … Model simulations were indepen- dently conducted with a 100 000-person sample for each age, sex, and … This corresponds to the decrease in person-years of risk exposure. … chemoprevention Aspirin for primary prevention group Initialization of model simulation Assign (sampled) person

249. Archived: Evidence Summary: Abnormal Blood Glucose and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 13, 2015 - B All-cause mortality: 2.2 vs. 3.8 events/1,000 person-years; HR, 0.57 (95% CI, 0.21 to 1.58) … CV events: 22.9 vs. 22.0 events/1,000 person-years; HR, 1.04 (95% CI, 0.72 to 1.51) Fair Pharmacologic … B: 20-year results Incidence: 6.9 vs. 11.3 cases/100 person-years Cumulative incidence: 79.7% … B: 23-year results Incidence: 7.3 vs. 12.3 cases/10 person-years Cumulative incidence: 73% (312 … B Incidence: 14.1 vs. 15.8 cases/100 person-years; RR, 0.89 (95% CI, 0.78 to 1.02) Subanalyses

250. 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

251. Final Research Plan: Illicit Drug Use in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: Primary Care-Based Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 30, 2018 - (early childhood, preadolescent, adolescent, young adult), sex, race/ethnicity   Young persons … directly referred for substance abuse treatment in a specialty setting a Trials limited to young persons … including interventions targeting parents or caregivers to prevent and/or reduce drug use in young persons … enhancement therapy), specific strategies (e.g., action plans, diaries), delivery method (e.g., in person … illicit and nonmedical drugs only sporadically or experimentally (i.e., excluding trials targeting persons

252. 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

253. Archived: Gonorrhea (Including Ocular Prophylaxis in Newborns): Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - remained very high in some groups of young men and women. 8 Over 60% of gonococcal infections occur in persons … Among asymptomatic persons, in whom the prevalence of gonorrhea is often very low, a substantial proportion … with multiple sex partners or whose sex partner has multiple sex contacts, sexual contacts of persons … with culture-proven gonorrhea, or persons with a history of repeated episodes of gonorrhea. 47 These … High-risk groups include commercial sex workers (prostitutes), persons with a history of repeated episodes

254. Archived: Evidence Summary: Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary28/cognitive-impairment-in-older-adults-screening-2014
     October 22, 2013 - Only 4 trials ( n = 1960) were conducted in persons with MCI 102 , 115 , 119 , 131 . … Only 1 galantamine trial reporting global functioning was conducted in persons with MCI 131 . … Cognitive-behavioral intervention for homebound caregivers of persons with dementia. … The effects of a multimodal intervention on outcomes of persons with early-stage dementia. … Benefits seemed to be limited to persons with moderate AD.

255. 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

256. 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

257. Archived: Final Evidence Review: Hepatitis C: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-review49/hepatitis-c-screening-2013
     November 15, 2012 - Screening for HCV infection could identify persons at earlier stages of disease, before they develop … Up to three quarters of HCV-infected persons are unaware of their status 19 . In 2004, the U.S. … sufficient information to compute the sensitivity and number needed to screen to identify 1 HCV-infected person … , in addition to persons with risk factors for HCV infection 25 . … living with HCV-infected individual, living with injection drug user, needle exposure to high-risk person

258. Recommendation: Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     February 02, 2021 - abdominal aortic aneurysm Interventions for tobacco smoking cessation in adults, including pregnant persons … Asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis refers to stenosis in persons without a history of ischemic stroke … externally validated risk stratification tools that could reliably distinguish between asymptomatic persons … who have clinically important carotid artery stenosis and persons who do not, or the risk of stroke … including completion of ongoing trials. 7 Development and validation of tools to determine which persons

259. JAMA (pdf file)
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     June 12, 2020 - The number of persons 60 years or older with impaired vi- sual acuity (defined as best corrected visual … 760 000.1 Impaired visual acuity is consistently associated with decreased quality of life in older persons … The number of persons 60 years or older with impaired visual acuity (defined as best corrected visual … Impaired visual acuity is consistently associated with decreased quality of life in older persons, including … It does not apply to persons who have reported signs and symptoms of vision loss, seek care for vision

260. 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 (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2009 - CRP) may help to refine global risk assessment for coronary heart disease (CHD), particularly among persons … control studies relevant to the independent predictive ability of CRP when used in intermediate-risk persons … Few studies directly assessed the effect of CRP on risk reclassification in intermediate-risk persons … In the Fra- mingham risk scoring system, intermediate-risk persons are those with a 10% to 20% risk for … Further stratification by using new markers might reclassify some intermediate-risk persons as low-risk