Abstract Background Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is associated with a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The DIA betic CA rdio VA scular S creening and intervention trial (DIACAVAS) was designed to clarify whether advanced imaging for subclinical atherosclerosis combined medical treatment an effective strategy develop individualised algorithms Danish men women T2D aged 40–60...

Harms? False positives with biopsiesb 50–200 Unnecessary treatmentsb 2–10 Doctors, health pamphlets from national cancer societies, and he Internet all inform women about early detection of breast caner and the benefits of mammography screening. Thus, women hould be fairly knowledgeable about screening. Yet nothing is farher from the truth, as documented by the first European-wide tudy [1] that...

creening for treatable conditions has long been a hallmark of pediatrics. Screening S starts before birth with in utero ultrasounds looking for congenital abnormalities, after birth with a heel prick for metabolic disorders, and in the primary care office with growth charts, specific developmental questions, hematocrits, urine dipsticks, and vision and hearing tests. Although psychosocial scree...

ith great interest we read the review by Corrado et al. (1) on re-participation screening (PPS) of young competitive athletes to revent sudden cardiac death (SCD). It is important that Corrado et al. (1) briefly mentioned the ossibility of cascade screening of relatives of a competitive athlete ith an inherited heart disease. Unfortunately, this topic is requently neglected in articles on PPS. ...

i a w o a reast cancer is the most common malignancy seen in omen in the US; with an age-adjusted incidence of ore than 120 per 100,000 American women, it is reorted to affect at least 1 in 9 over an 85-year lifetime. dvances in breast health awareness, with improved creening, earlier detection of disease, and more effective ystemic therapy, have resulted in considerable declines n breast cance...

s b c M N t 2 e e c c a i decade ago there was great optimism for harnessing the healthcare system to increase the use of evidence-based tobacco-dependence reatment and, ultimately, to achieve national goals for eductions in the prevalence of tobacco use. Two atalysts for addressing tobacco in health care at that ime were the newly released Agency for Health Care olicy and Research (AHCPR) (now...

ased on evidence demonstrating that early detection and treatment can reduce mortality, regular screening for breast, cervical, and colorectal ancers has been widely recommended by most prevenive services organizations for the past several deades. However, use of mammography, Pap smear, nd any of the recommended colorectal cancer screenng modalities remains sub-optimal. Patients without ecent s...

creening for early markers of micro-vascular disease is now generally recommended from around the age of 10 years in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (TIDM). Annual assessment should include direct fundal examination or fundus photography, monitoring of arterial blood pressure (BP), and measurement of urinary albu-min excretion. The basis of all screening programmes is that those most at ...

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