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41. Interventions for Weight Management in Children and Adolescents: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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    June 18, 2024 - For simplicity this is referred to as greater “weight loss,” but in some studies it represents smaller … Mean reductions in zBMI found in the behavioral in- tervention trials included in this review were far smaller … posttreatment follow-up Insufficient Both studies conducted in the US, recruited from health care settings; smaller … outcomes: low for no benefit Both studies conducted in the US, recruited from health care settings; smaller … events: low for increased harm Both studies conducted in the US, recruited from health care settings; smaller

42. Screening for Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adolescents and Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2021 - The study concluded that the traditional algorithm may be more appropriate for smaller laboratories with … testing processes can improve workflow and efficiency or for smaller laboratories serving higher-risk

43. Recommendation: Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adolescents and Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    September 27, 2022 - The study concluded that the traditional algorithm may be more appropriate for smaller laboratories with … either larger laboratories where automated testing processes can improve workflow and efficiency or for smaller

44. Archived: Skin Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/skin-cancer-screening-july-2016
    July 26, 2016 - clinical visual skin examination component; therefore, it is likely that the effect of screening alone is smaller … persons screened after 10 years; however, there are reasons to believe that the effect size is likely smaller

45. Evidence Summary: Aspirin Use to Prevent Preeclampsia and Related Morbidity and Mortality: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/low-dose-aspirin-use-for-the-prevention-of-morbidity-and-mortality-from-preeclampsia-preventive-medication
    September 28, 2021 - associated with aspirin use ranged from −1% to −6% across larger trials (n >300) and were greater in smaller … Such effects can be observed when smaller studies with null or negative findings are absent from the … literature (ie, publication bias) or due to reported and unreported differences between smaller and larger … pooled effect sizes were overestimated for preeclampsia and preterm birth prevention; alternatively, the smaller

46. Archived: Low-Dose Aspirin Use for the Prevention of Morbidity and Mortality From Preeclampsia: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/low-dose-aspirin-use-for-the-prevention-of-morbidity-and-mortality-from-preeclampsia-preventive-medication-september-2014
    September 09, 2014 - Thirteen smaller trials were conducted in various developed countries. … Eighteen trials reported on the outcome of perinatal mortality (with 4 smaller studies reporting no events

47. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Low-Dose Aspirin Use for the Prevention of Morbidity and Mortality From Preeclampsia: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary51/low-dose-aspirin-use-for-the-prevention-of-morbidity-and-mortality-from-preeclampsia-preventive-medication-september-2014
    April 08, 2014 - Data Synthesis: Two large, multisite RCTs and 13 smaller RCTs of high-risk women (8 good-quality) were … method can overestimate CI precision in meta-analysis, particularly when fewer than 10 studies or when smaller … Some smaller studies had no events for rare outcomes, such as perinatal death and placental abruption … the large trials were national multisite studies 43 , 44 or international collaborations 51 , 53 Smaller

48. Recommendation: Breastfeeding: Primary Care Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    April 11, 2025 - A much smaller number of the included trials reported on the direct impact of the breastfeeding support … Generally, the number of participants analyzed for each of these outcomes was much smaller, making it

49. Archived: Bladder Cancer in Adults: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    January 01, 1996 - probability of developing cancer is over 3%. 3 The probability of dying from bladder cancer is much smaller

50. Screening for Syphilis Infection During Pregnancy: USPSTF Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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    April 24, 2023 - patients report a penicillin allergy, although the number of patients who are truly allergic may be much smaller … compared with those who had untreated syphilis.32 The reduction in stillbirth and fetal loss was much smaller

51. Modeling Study: Colorectal Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-modeling-study18/colorectal-cancer-screening
    May 18, 2021 - screening increased when screening was initiated in the models at an earlier age, although the increase was smaller … of this age dependency, which is the result of model structure and calibration, MISCAN estimates a smaller … specificity with CTC reflects detection of nonadenomatous lesions ≥6 mm, artifacts, stool, and adenomas smaller

52. Primary Care Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Support Breastfeeding: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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    April 08, 2025 - A much smaller number of the included trials reported on the di- rect impact of the breastfeeding support … Generally, the number of participants analyzed for each of these outcomes was much smaller, making it

53. Archived: High Blood Cholesterol and Other Lipid Abnormalities: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    January 01, 1996 - cholesterol was steepest at very high values (>300 mg/dL). 16 Excess risk from high cholesterol is smaller … absolute benefit of treating high cholesterol in persons without cardiovascular disease, however, is much smaller … conjunction with smoking cessation, reduced CHD incidence by 47%. 103 The remaining trials achieved much smaller … Due to variable compliance, trials of diet counseling in the primary care setting have achieved much smaller

54. T6Tquunynv3Twm65Bfash2 (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2015 - Based on a smaller number of studies (14 studies; n = 6166), a 2012 systematic review (27) found that … Smaller subsets of studies from these reviews di- rectly compared types of pharmacotherapy for smok- … The USPSTF found a much smaller body of evidence on pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation in pregnant … identified 1 study of middle-aged men at high risk for cardiorespiratory disease that found a significantly smaller

55. Archived: Lung Cancer: Screening, May 2004 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    May 15, 2004 - procedures in symptomatic patients range from 1.3% to 11.6%, with lower mortality among patients undergoing smaller

56. Archived: Aspirin Prophylaxis in Pregnancy: Preventive Medication, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/aspirin-prophylaxis-pregnancy-1996
    January 01, 1996 - Three smaller trials 16-18 also examined the use of aspirin in women at increased risk of preeclampsia

57. Archived: Depression: Screening 2002 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    May 07, 2002 - The number needed to treat for benefit would be smaller for patients with major depression only, but

58. Screening for Depression - Recommendations and Rationale (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2002 - The number needed to treat for benefit would be smaller for patients with major depression only, but

59. Vitamin D With or Without Calcium Supplementation for Prevention of Cancer and Fractures: An Updated Meta-analysis for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2011 - Conclusion: Combined vitamin D and calcium supplementation can reduce fracture risk, but the effects may be smaller … In contrast, the smaller trial conducted in Nebraska reported a 60% (CI, 18% to 80%) reduction in the … The risk reduction was smaller in community-dwelling elderly per- sons or postmenopausal women (relative … However, the effects may vary according to setting, with smaller effects in community-dwelling elderly

60. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Healthy Diet and Physical Activity: Counseling for CVD Prevention in Adults | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary27/healthy-diet-and-physical-activity-counseling-for-cvd-prevention-in-adults-2012
    December 15, 2010 - Low- and medium-intensity interventions resulted in smaller reductions in fat intake 42 , 48 , 74-77 … The reductions in blood pressure, about 1.5 mm Hg (systolic) and 0.7 mm Hg (diastolic), were smaller … However it is unclear whether smaller reductions in total cholesterol level due to dietary changes can … Low- to medium-intensity interventions resulted in smaller changes.