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261. Recommendation: Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 14, 2025 - The US Food and Drug Administration has approved several drug therapies for the treatment or prevention … For these reasons, it may be reasonable to avoid strict application of risk assessment tool treatment … Evidence on harms of drug therapies in men is limited. 1 Current Practice Data on how frequently … The clinician's guide to prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. … Fracture risk and zoledronic acid therapy in men with osteoporosis.

262. Screening for Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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     May 24, 2022 - outcomes Reporting bias not detected Moderate for benefit VEGF inhibitors are considered first-line therapy … detected Moderate for no harm VEGF inhibitors vs sham: VEGF inhibitors are considered first-line therapy … Morphology and visual acuity in aflibercept and ranibizumab therapy for neovascular age-related macular … Oral zinc-therapy in age-related macular degeneration: a double blind study. … Introducing anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapies for AMD did not raise risk of myocardial

263. 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 - Treatment Antiviral treatment prevents long-term health complications of HCV infection (such as cirrhosis … The combination of pegylated interferon (α-2a or α-2b) and ribavirin is the standard treatment for HCV … Food and Drug Administration approved the protease inhibitors boceprevir and telaprevir for the treatment

264. Final Research Plan: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/speech-and-language-delay-and-disorders-in-children-age-5-and-younger-screening
     June 09, 2022 - Are there disparities in the provision and utilization of treatment for speech and language delay or … screening instruments that do not include a separate component for speech and language skills Treatment … quality Language of published study English Non-English * Age criteria for studies of treatment … children as old as age 6 years given that children who would be screened at age 5 years and referred for treatment … The USPSTF added minor edits to make clear that screening and treatment for speech disorders, language

265. Screening for Lipid Disorders in Children: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2007 - Efficacy of Treatment Treatment of childhood dyslipidemia has been shown to be effective in lowering … effects of drug, diet, exercise, and combination therapy in children and adolescents.2 Lipid-lowering … Efficacy and safety of cholestyramine therapy in peripubertal and prepubertal children with familial … Garlic extract therapy in children with hypercholesterolemia. … Drug therapy of high-risk lipid abnormalities in children and adolescents: a scientific statement from

266. Screening for Coronary Heart Disease: Clinician Fact Sheet (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2009 - than later treatment. … This means that good studies have shown that early treatment, compared with later treatment, helps patients … In patients at low risk for CHD, these harms outweigh any potential benefit of early treatment. … diagnostic evaluations, and may be subjected to overtreatment with medical/and or invasive surgical therapies … y Consider aspirin therapy for men at increased CHD risk.

267. Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: Clinical Summary (pdf file)
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     Treatment and Interventions Treatment with continuous positive airway pressure or mandibular advancement … apnea-hypopnea index, Epworth Sleepiness Scale score, and blood pressure) in populations referred for treatment

268. Archived: Iron Deficiency Anemia: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     May 15, 2006 - Harms of detection and early treatment: The USPSTF found no evidence addressing the harms of screening … The likelihood that iron deficiency anemia identified by screening will respond to treatment is unclear … Children Intervention—Treatment The USPSTF found poor evidence (conflicting studies) that treatment … Unintentional overdose is a known potential harm of treatment with oral iron, as are gastrointestinal … Iron therapy for improving psychomotor development and cognitive function in children under the age of

269. Screening for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Young Children: USPSTF Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     February 16, 2016 - Treatments and Interventions Treatments for ASD include behavioral, medical, educational, speech/ language … , and occupational therapy and complementary and alter- native medicine approaches. … Treatments for ASD include behavioral, medical, educational, speech/language, and occupational therapy … Treatment could be compared with a wait-list control, less intense treatment, or an alternative treatment … and treatment.

270. Recommendation: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     January 23, 2024 - for childhood speech and language delays and disorders vary widely and can include speech-language therapy … Speech-language therapy may take place in various settings, such as speech and language specialty clinics … , the school or classroom, the home, and via telehealth. 6 , 9 Therapy may be administered on an individual … Persons administering therapy may be speech-language pathologists, educators, or parents. … usually depend on the severity of the speech or language disorder and the child’s progress in meeting therapy

271. Screening for Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     January 23, 2024 - for childhood speech and language delays and disor- ders vary widely and can include speech-language therapy … Speech-language therapy may take place in various settings, such as speech and language specialty clinics … , the school or classroom, the home, and via telehealth.6,9 Therapy may be administered on an individual … administering therapy may be speech-language pathologists, edu- cators, or parents. … ally depend on the severity of the speech or language disorder and the child’s progress in meeting therapy

272. Archived: Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adults and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 07, 2016 - Benefits of Early Detection and Treatment The USPSTF found convincing evidence that treatment with … headache, myalgia, and other symptoms), which may occur within the first 24 hours after any syphilis therapy … Sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines, 2015. … Epidemiologic treatment of contacts to infectious syphilis. … Therapy for incubating syphilis. Effectiveness of gonorrhea treatment.

273. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Lipid Disorders in Children: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary34/lipid-disorders-in-children-screening-2007
     July 15, 2007 - Trials of drug therapy in children with heterozygous FH or FCH are included because drug treatment trials … Benefits and adverse effects of therapies were considered equally important and both types of outcomes … Eleven trials evaluated drug therapies for treatment of children with probable or definite heterozygous … treatments: diet, exercise, drug [treatments], and combination [treatments], to a lozenge-shaped box … Reynauld's phenomenon occurred during therapy (1) but treatment continued without recurrence.

274. Archived: Lipid Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/lipid-disorders-in-children-screening-july-2016
     August 09, 2016 - Treatment and Interventions Interventions for dyslipidemia include lifestyle modification (eg, changes … coronary heart disease events; and early identification and intervention with cholesterol-lowering therapy … ezetimibe, studied in 2 RCTs), also showed smaller effects on levels of LDL-C in a trial of combination therapy … Patterns of lipid lowering therapy among children ages 8-20 years. … Ten-year follow-up after initiation of statin therapy in children with familial hypercholesterolemia.

275. Effectiveness of Weight Management Interventions in Children: A Targeted Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2010 - Rapid versus grad- ual scheduling of therapeutic contact in a family based behavioural weight control … Behavior therapy and sibutra- mine for the treatment of adolescent obesity: a randomized controlled trial … Exercise therapy andhypocaloric diet in the treatment of obese children and adolescents. … r$) adj (therapy or modif$ or strateg$ or intervention$)).mp. … or family therapy or cognitive therapy).mp.

276. 827Cwgymvawpvovg Syjpf (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2015 - Treatment Treatment of iron deficiency anemia in pregnant women is similar to that in nonpregnant women … Effectiveness of Early Detection and Treatment Screening and Treatment No good- or fair-quality studies … Potential Harms of Early Detection and Treatment Screening and Treatment No good- or fair-quality studies … The USPSTF also clarified that intravenous iron treatment is a potential therapy that is offered in current … Treatments for iron-deficiency anaemia in pregnancy. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011:CD003094.

277. Archived: Evidence Summary: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary/chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease-screening-2016
     April 05, 2016 - benefit in all-cause mortality, but a decrease in annual rates of exacerbations with pharmacologic treatments … For the treatment questions, the search included treatment efficacy literature for the following COPD … KQ 8: What are the adverse effects of COPD treatments in this population? … Tiotropium in patients with moderate COPD naive to maintenance therapy: a randomised placebo-controlled … What are the adverse effects of COPD treatments in this population?

278. Screening for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adolescents and Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2018 - RESULTS Eight RCTs of DAA therapy vs placebo or an outdated antiviral regimen, 48 other treatment studies … d 1 What are the harms of currently recommended antiviral treatments? … in the Supplement).59,61,100 Treatment studies of DAA therapy in adoles- cents were not designed to … What are the harms of currently recommended an- tiviral treatments? … 1 study did not report what type of treatment was ad- ministered (likely primarily interferon-based therapies

279. Screening for Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: USPSTF Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     February 13, 2018 - and the treatment threshold to pre- vent osteoporotic fractures.4,12 All the osteoporosis drug therapy … Treatments The US Food and Drug Administration has approved multiple drug therapies to reduce osteoporotic … adverse effects of drug therapies, such as reducing esophageal irritation from bisphosphonate therapy … In addition, drug therapy trials for osteoporosis treatment generally use central DXA mea- surement of … phonate therapy.

280. Final Research Plan: Aspirin Use to Prevent Preeclampsia and Related Morbidity and Mortality: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/low-dose-aspirin-use-for-the-prevention-of-morbidity-and-mortality-from-preeclampsia-preventive-medication
     September 26, 2019 - Nonhuman populations; nonpregnant persons; studies that only/exclusively include persons seeking fertility treatment … medications or aspirin combined with other potentially active interventions Comparisons Placebo or no treatment … diagnoses or symptoms Maternal mortality Measures of well-being or quality of life Potential treatment … age (<10th percentile weight for gestational age) Stillbirth or neonatal mortality Potential treatment