Screening for Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis in the General Population

Screening for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis.

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Screening for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis: caveat emptor.

The effectiveness of a population-based disease prevention or screening program depends in part on the prevalence of the risk factor or condition in the population, the characteristics of the test used to identify persons who are at risk for or have the disease, the availability of proven interventions that can lead to improvements in clinically important health outcomes without causing undue h...

Prediction of asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis in the general population: identification of high-risk groups.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Because of a low prevalence of severe carotid stenosis in the general population, screening for presence of asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis (ACAS) is not warranted. Possibly, for certain subgroups, screening is worthwhile. The present study aims to develop prediction rules for the presence of ACAS (>50% and >70%). METHODS Individual participant data from 4 populati...

Prevalence of asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis in the general population: an individual participant data meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In the discussion on the cost-effectiveness of screening, precise estimates of severe asymptomatic carotid stenosis are vital. Accordingly, we assessed the prevalence of moderate and severe asymptomatic carotid stenosis by age and sex using pooled cohort data. METHODS We performed an individual participant data meta-analysis (23 706 participants) of 4 population-based s...

Endarterectomy for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis.