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281. Archived: Healthy Diet Promotion: Behavioral Counseling, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - cancer. 92 , 93 Such studies do not, however, provide direct evidence that high dietary fiber intake, rather … than other population dietary characteristics (e.g., low fat intake), is directly responsible for the … children. 181 In most studies of nutritional counseling, however, the counselor was not a physician, but rather … and dietary cholesterol to less than 300 mg/day. … Saturated fat consumption should be reduced to less than 10% of total calories.

282. 10th Annual Report to Congress on High-Priority Evidence Gaps (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2020 - the harms of interventions – Examine health, social, and legal outcomes – Focus on children younger than … The Task Force does not conduct research studies, but rather reviews and assesses published research … In FY2019, the NIH provided more than $1.1 billion to support more than 2,700 obesity-related studies … selectively offer screening for AAA with ultrasonography in men ages 65 to 75 years who have never smoked, rather … than routinely screening all men in this group.

283. Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2022 - The USPSTF recognizes that clinical decisions involve more con- siderations than evidence alone. … The USPSTF recognizes that race, ethnicity, and gender are all social rather than biological constructs … The USPSTF recognizes that clinical decisions involve more considerations than evidence alone. … these cases are believed to be due to progression of latent infec- tion to active tuberculosis disease rather … than new transmission within communities.16-21 Persons who live, or have lived, in high-risk congregate

284. Screening for Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adults: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     June 07, 2016 - The USPSTF recognizes that clinical decisions involve more con- siderations than evidence alone. … harms of antibiotic treatment are well established, and the magni- tude of these harms is no greater than … Men aged 20 to 29 years had the highest prevalence rate, nearly 3 times higher than that in the average … Screening Tests Current screening tests for syphilis rely on detection of antibodies rather than direct … Indian/Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander individuals had higher prevalence rates than

285. Archived: Final Research Plan: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 17, 2014 - describe the expected population health outcomes of a clinical preventive service over a lifetime horizon rather … than the more limited range of years generally captured by clinical trials.

286. Prostate-Specific Antigen–Based Screening for Prostate Cancer: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     May 08, 2018 - Prostate Cancer Intervention vs Observation Trial (PIVOT), in which 50% of men had screen-detected rather … detected localized cancer would need to be treated with radical pros- tatectomy and radiation therapy (rather … estimated from RCT data, 7.9 men (95% CI, 5.4-12.2) would need to be treated with radical prostatectomy rather … from this pooled analysis, 2.7 men (95% CI, 2.2-3.6) need to be treated with radical prostatectomy rather … Based on the cohort data, 6.9 men (95% CI, 5.1-10.7) would need to be treated with radiation therapy rather

287. Archived: Evidence Summary: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 05, 2016 - AUC), 0.65 to 0.72; sensitivity, 80% to 93%; and specificity, 24% to 49%, at a threshold of greater than … Specificity (range, 90%–95%) and PPV (range, 63%–75%) appeared better than questionnaires. … For the threshold of less than 16.5 for screen negatives, and limiting to studies in which fewer than … groups underwent spirometry, so the trial actually tested the method of communicating spirometry results rather … control groups Inconsistent Studies tested incremental value of adding spirometry to counseling alone rather

288. Screening for Dementia - Recommendations and Rationale (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2003 - Tests that assess functional limitations rather than cognitive impairment, such as the Functional Activities … estimated to be $100 billion.6 Age is the strongest risk factor for dementia: 3% to 11% of people older than … 65 and 25% to 47% of those older than 85 have dementia.2 First degree relatives of patients with Alzheimer … In one study of patients undergoing a detailed assessment of mental function, fewer than 5% found the … rates in RCTs of cholinesterase inhibitors were higher in the groups taking cholinesterase inhibitors than

289. Archived: Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 26, 2018 - For postmenopausal women younger than 65 years who have at least 1 risk factor, a reasonable approach … The USPSTF recognizes that clinical decisions involve more considerations than evidence alone. … or equal to 6 for SCORE, greater than or equal to 9 for ORAI, less than 1 for OSIRIS, and less than … Treatment trials that focus on or include men and report on fracture outcomes (rather than BMD) as well … It also recommends BMD testing in postmenopausal women younger than 65 years and men younger than 70

290. Recommendation: Unhealthy Drug Use: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 09, 2020 - prescribed or use by persons other than the prescribed individual). … prescribed or by persons other than the prescribed individual. … pediatricians report routinely screening for substance use, and most screen using their clinical impressions rather … Few tools that assess cannabis use were evaluated in more than 1 study. … Most participants were adult males younger than 30 years.

291. Screening for Breast Cancer: An Update for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2009 - Younger women have more false-positive mammography results and additional imaging but fewer biopsies than … The Age trial (29) met USPSTF criteria for fair rather than good quality because contamination of groups … used out- dated technology and the CNBSS-1 trial (28) because it enrolled prescreened volunteers rather … than unselected samples. … Routine screening mammography in women older than 74 years: a review of the available data.

292. Recommendation: Tobacco Smoking Cessation in Adults, Including Pregnant Persons: Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 19, 2021 - outcomes from trial evidence is mixed, although most studies reported findings in the direction of benefit rather … than harm. … cessation, 1 , 12 , 47 most of the research on interventions for smoking cessation focuses on cessation (rather … than health outcomes) as a primary outcome. … Substances other than tobacco can also be used to smoke or vape.

293. ahrq12a_Summary_HBP.qxd (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - 4 times more risk for stroke, myocardial infarction, heart failure, and peripheral vascular disease than … Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring provides a measure of average blood pressure over 24 hours rather … than isolated single values obtained in office checks or at home. … In patients older than 60, the majority of whom had blood pressures in this range, treatment reduced … 160 mm Hg but DBP less than 95 mm Hg) in patients older than 60 with pharmacological therapy (eg, diuretics

294. Archived: Evidence Summary: High Blood Pressure in Adults, Children, and Adolescents: Screening, 2003 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 01, 2003 - 4 times more risk for stroke, myocardial infarction, heart failure, and peripheral vascular disease than … Early treatment of hypertension resulted in better outcomes than late treatment. … Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring provides a measure of average blood pressure over 24 hours rather … than isolated single values obtained in office checks or at home. … 160 mm Hg but DBP less than 95 mm Hg) in patients older than 60 with pharmacological therapy (e.g.,

295. Evaluating Primary Care Behavioral Counseling Interventions: An Evidence-based Approach (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - throughout medicine, to date they have been used primarily to assess services such as preventive screening, rather … than those requiring behavioral counseling.1,2 The current USPSTF recognized a 2-fold need: (1) to … change advice.59 Such an approach emphasizes the patient’s role in interpreting advice and explores, rather … than prescribes, how best to proceed. … minor qualifications such as, “As your physician, I feel I should tell you,” for an advice message, rather

296. Fbqmoapkebekmj7Aqmale5 (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2014 - The USPSTF recognizes that clinical decisions involve more considerations than evidence alone. … , to 5% in per- sons aged 71 to 79 years, 24% in those aged 80 to 89 years, and 37% in those older than … Dementia also affects more women than men. … compared with 11% of men; these differences are primarily explained by women’s longer life expectancy rather … than any sex-based risk factors (14).

297. Ovxmtapc8Tcpqzvrkeyhyd (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2013 - The USPSTF recognizes that clinical decisions involve more considerations than evidence alone. … 4 years and many (42.4%) were younger than 1 year (1). … Child-specific risk factors include being younger than 4 years; having physical (1, 26, 27) or intel- … interventions (that are imple- mented in or can be referred by providers in the primary care setting) rather … than screening.

298. Estimation of Benefits, Burden, and Harms of Colorectal Cancer Screening Strategies: Modeling Study for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     June 21, 2016 - 55-75 years) to more than 7500 (colonoscopy screening every 5 years from ages 45-85 years). … strategy (ie, strategies with a larger efficiency ratio than the benchmark strategy). … When the number of procedures requiring cathartic bowel preparation was used, rather than the number … A strategy involving CTC was model-recommend- able provided that the number of colonoscopies, rather … than the number of procedures requiring cathartic bowel preparation, was Figure 4.

299. Archived: Cervical Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 15, 2012 - younger than age 21 years. … harms than benefits. … than age 21 years are moderate. … to more harm than benefit 4 . … The treatment of precancerous rather than early-stage cancerous lesions is unique to cervical cancer

300. Evidence Summary: Oral Health in Children and Adolescents Aged 5 to 17 Years: Screening and Preventive Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     November 07, 2023 - relevant factors, including placebo or no treatment control; school or home setting; follow-up less than … The reduction in caries burden was larger for varnish 19 than for gels, 18 and resin-based sealants … with serious methodological limitations. 17 Third, previously published systematic reviews were used, rather … than relying exclusively on primary studies. … Rather, the review addressed the effectiveness of oral health counseling, which includes counseling on