Articles Tagged With: screening
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Infectious Disease Updates
Lyme Disease; Pregnant Women Must Be Screened for Syphilis; Pacific Coast Tick Fever
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Updates on Cervical Cancer Prevention: Summary and Projected Effect
HPV vaccination and updated screening strategies offer OB/GYN providers powerful tools to prevent cervical cancer. Recent advances, risk-based management, and enhanced follow-up can provide targeted care for high-risk patients to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer while avoiding unnecessary procedures.
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Universal Youth Chlamydia Screening Is Up for Debate
Studies continue to show that some populations are at an elevated risk of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) Chlamydia trachomatis genital infection. Once infected, women can develop health problems, including pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility.
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CT Coronary Artery Calcium Progression After an Initial Score of Zero
A large Korean study of asymptomatic subjects undergoing more than one computed tomography (CT) coronary calcium scoring scan as part of an employment-based health screening has shown that most had scores of 0, and that during a maximum follow-up of 12 years, the majority stayed at 0 on a repeat scan. Also, in those with a coronary artery calcium score of 0 initially, clinically significant scores (> 100) were only found in 4% of scans at 10-year follow-up.
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New Guidelines for HPV Testing of Self-Collected Vaginal Specimens
This article outlines national consensus guidelines for the use of human papillomavirus (HPV) testing of self-collected vaginal specimens for cervical cancer screening.
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Cervical Cancer Screening Is Important for All Women — Not Just Unvaccinated
Women who received the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine at the youngest age group of 9 to 12 years were less likely to participate in cervical cancer screening (a Pap test) than were those who received the vaccine during their teens and young adulthood, a new study finds.
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From Glucocentricity to a Multi-Risk Strategy: An Updated Approach to Managing Chronic Kidney Disease
This article discusses an important microvascular complication of diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease (CKD), which affects more than one-third of patients with diabetes. There is substantial evidence that early diagnosis and management can delay or prevent the progression of CKD, making its prevention, diagnosis, and treatment a priority for the primary care clinician.
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Screening Relatives of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Patients
A retrospective cohort study of the first-degree relatives of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) seen in screening clinics in Denmark has shown that the diagnostic yield of the first visit is 26% and subsequent visits add 4%. The best predictor of the development of HCM in relatives of families with negative genetic findings was maximal left ventricular wall thickness of ≥ 10 mm.
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Routine, Opt-Out Screening for Syphilis in Emergency Departments Succeeds
The current healthcare crisis of increases in cases of congenital syphilis suggest reproductive health providers and the public health community need better strategies for identifying people with syphilis infection and getting them into treatment.
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Screening for Atrial Fibrillation in Older Adults
A two-week ambulatory electrocardiogram monitor in a large group of individuals 70 years of age or older with no history of atrial fibrillation (AF) showed a very low incidence of AF (4.4%), almost all of which was paroxysmal. In less than 2% of the subjects did it represent ≥ 2% of the monitoring time. However, some patients had hours of AF, raising a concern for thromboembolic risk.