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361. Recommendation: Hypertension in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 27, 2021 - Treatment The benefits of treatment of hypertension in preventing important health outcomes such as … stroke, heart failure, and coronary heart disease events are well documented. 11 Treatment can include … Selection of treatment can vary depending on severity of blood pressure elevation, age, and other risk … The Seventh Report on the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment … for and treatment of hypertension detected in clinical office settings has few major harms.

362. Recommendation: Chlamydia and Gonorrhea: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     September 14, 2021 - Treatment or Interventions Chlamydial and gonococcal infections respond to treatment with antibiotics … on anatomical site–specific testing. 19 , 32 , 33 Because the USPSTF had previously determined that treatments … for these infections are effective and well established, this review did not include a review of treatments … substantial prevalence of asymptomatic infection, the availability of accurate screening tests and effective treatments … Accurate screening tests and effective antibiotic treatments are available for chlamydia and gonorrhea

363. Archived: Obesity: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - may cause palpitations, dizziness, insomnia, headache, and gastrointestinal discomfort. 120 Surgical therapies … Conservative treatments for obesity. Am J Clin Nutr . 1987;45:1142–1154. [ PubMed ] 76. … Treatment of obesity by very low calorie diet, behavior therapy, and their combination: a five-year perspective … Five year follow-up of family-based behavioral treatments for childhood obesity. … Exercise therapy and hypocaloric diet in the treatment of obese children and adolescents.

364. Screening for Dementia - Recommendations and Rationale (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2003 - There is fair to good evidence that several drug therapies have a beneficial effect on cognitive function … the patients may have in understanding and adhering to recommended therapy. … To assess possible benefits of detecting undiagnosed dementia, the USPSTF examined trials of therapies … Donepezil therapy in clinical practice: a randomized crossover study. … Estrogen replacement therapy for treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer disease: a randomized controlled

365. Archived: Prostate Cancer: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 01, 1996 - Even if the need for treatment is accepted, the effectiveness of available treatments is unproven. … Currently available evidence about the effectiveness of radical prostatectomy, radiation therapy, and … several design flaws. 56 , 57 Randomized controlled trials to evaluate the effectiveness of current therapies … but no surgical or radiation therapy) was associated with a 10-year disease-specific survival rate of … radical prostatectomy, and 74% for external radiation therapy. 72 Thus, the effectiveness of treatment

366. Final Evidence Summary: Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adolescents and Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     March 02, 2020 - USPSTF review on HCV screening in adults 5 , 6 and a comparative effectiveness review on antiviral treatments … What is the effectiveness of currently recommended antiviral treatments in improving health outcomes … What is the effectiveness of currently recommended antiviral treatments in achieving an SVR in patients … What are the harms of currently recommended antiviral treatments? … Three studies focused on DAAs, 66 , 68 , 77 1 study evaluated interferon-based treatments and DAAs,

367. JAMA JATS (pdf file)
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     June 18, 2018 - Grade: A Grade: A Grade: D Risk Assessment Screening Tests Treatments and Interventions For a summary … High-grade cervical lesions may be treated with excisional and ablative therapies. … High-grade cervical lesions may be treated with excisional and ablative therapies. … Treatment of precancerous lesions is less inva- sive than treatment of cancer.2 Race/Ethnicity, Geography … Harms of Treatment The harms of treatment include risks from the treatment proce- dure and the potential

368. Screening for Rh (D) Incompatibility - Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2004 - The USPSTF found no new evidence addressing the role of screening, new screening tests, new treatment … protocols, or potential harms associated with screening and treatment of Rh (D) incompatibility.

369. Establishing and Maintaining Trust: How the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Uses Strategic Communications to Build Confidence in and Disseminate Its Evidence-Based Recommendations (pdf file)
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     May 26, 2023 - The tweet insinuated that this was a deliberate attempt to undercut the value of any COVID treatment

370. Archived: Skin Cancer: Screening, April 2001 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 01, 2001 - The possibility that earlier treatment as a result of screening improves health outcomes must rely on … cell and squamous cell carcinoma is low compared to mortality from melanoma, but early detection and treatment … Screening could result in unnecessary treatment, either due to misdiagnosis or to detection of lesions … Diagnosis and treatment of early melanoma.

371. Final Research Plan: Tobacco Use in Children and Adolescents: Primary Care Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/tobacco-and-nicotine-use-prevention-in-children-and-adolescents-primary-care-interventions
     October 12, 2017 - health care system–level interventions Adjunctive use of pharmacotherapy (nicotine replacement therapy … reduce tobacco and nicotine use in children and adolescents Complementary and alternative medicine treatments … question to an included intervention (i.e., bupropion, varenicline tartrate, and nicotine replacement therapy

372. Screening for Breast Cancer Background (pdf file)
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     mammography screening include: • Overdiagnosis and overtreatment, meaning that a woman would undergo treatment

373. Screening for Breast Cancer Background (pdf file)
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     mammography screening include: • Overdiagnosis and overtreatment, meaning that a woman would undergo treatment

374. Lipid Screening in Childhood and Adolescence for Detection of Familial Hypercholerolemia: Evidence Report and Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     August 09, 2016 - Treatment studies focusing on apheresis and revascularization were excluded, as those treatments are … Efficacy and safety of rosuvastatin therapy for children with familial hypercholesterolemia. … Efficacy and safety of cholestyramine therapy in peripubertal and prepubertal children with familial … Ten-year follow-up after initiation of statin therapy in children with familial hypercholesterolemia. … Early statin therapy restores endothelial function in children with familial hypercholesterolemia.

375. Jak5Cmryt E3Qkszf93Qbo (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2015 - effectiveness of this newer screening method (e.g., whether it reduces deaths, if there are harms of treatment … Overdiagnosis is when a woman is diagnosed with, and receives treatment for, breast cancer that would … progress to cause illness or death from those that will not, overdiagnosis almost always leads to treatment … Treatment for breast cancer can include surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. … These treatments will not benefit women whose cancer never would have affected her during her lifetime

376. Dl4Dsze-Jdjcpgdazq Byj (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2015 - effectiveness of this newer screening method (e.g., whether it reduces deaths, if there are harms of treatment … Overdiagnosis is when a woman is diagnosed with, and receives treatment for, breast cancer that would … progress to cause illness or death from those that will not, overdiagnosis almost always leads to treatment … Treatment for breast cancer can include surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. … These treatments will not benefit women whose cancer never would have affected her during her lifetime

377. Chemoprevention of Breast Cancer - Recommendations and Rationale (pdf file)
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     July 02, 2002 - B recommendation The USPSTF found fair evidence that treatment with tamoxifen can significantly reduce … use of agents to prevent the development of breast cancer was suggested by trials of breast cancer treatment … They also recommend that raloxifene use should be reserved for treatment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal … Systemic treatment of early breast cancer by hormonal, cytotoxic, or immune therapy. 133 randomised trials … Weighing the risks and benefits of tamoxifen treatment for preventing breast cancer .

378. Recommendation: Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 18, 2023 - The USPSTF is calling for more long-term data on the effectiveness of screening for and treatment of … Treatment interventions to lower lipid levels generally include lifestyle modification (eg, changes … USPSTF reviewed 22 fair- to good-quality trials (n = 2257) examining the effectiveness of lipid-lowering treatments … good-quality trials (n = 1008) examining the effectiveness of various nonpharmacologic lipid-lowering treatments … Long-term data on the harms of screening and treatment.

379. Archived: Evidence Summary: Suicide Risk in Adolescents, Adults and Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary20/suicide-risk-in-adolescents-adults-and-older-adults-screening
     April 15, 2013 - ) Fair (other therapies) Data on suicide deaths were insufficient. … , with direct therapeutic contact Comtois et al, 2011 47   19–62 (37) 62 Other therapy, … 4 Other therapy, with direct therapeutic contact Comtois et al, 2011 47 NR SA: NR (5.4 … psychotherapy 24 NR 18 Other therapy with direct therapeutic contact Eggert et al, …       Other therapy, without direct therapeutic contact Kovac and Range, 2002 56 121

380. Screening for Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: US Preventive Services Task Force Final Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     April 17, 2023 - Benefits of early detection and intervention and treatment (based on direct or indirect evidence) • … • The USPSTF previously found adequate evidence that the well-established treatments of preeclampsia … Harms of early detection and intervention and treatment • There is inadequate direct evidence on the … There is no other currently available treatment for preeclampsia ex- cept delivery. … or mortality.1 Race and ethnicity may influence the likelihood of patients re- ceiving recommended treatments