Background/Aims To determine the performance of combinations of structural and functional screening tests in detecting sight‐threatening eye disease in a cohort of elderly subjects recruited from primary care
The gold standard screening test for cancer in your colon or rectum, colorectal cancer, is a colonoscopy. This is done at a doctor's office under sedation, after a day of preparation that involvesfastingand clearing out your bowels. But there are alternatives: tests you take at home by coll...
and thus lowered the odds ratio (OR), making screening appear to be more protective. Even when DRE was not protective, the ORs for the effectiveness of screening with the more restrictive definition ranged
In the future, we may eradicate blindness resulting from ectatic diseases or even reduce the burden of such conditions on a population if we establish screening strategies that effectively detect disease in a subclinical or mild phase, allowing for earlier, typically less invasive treatments. For exa...
Microspirometry may be useful as the second stage of a screening pathway among patients reporting respiratory symptoms. We assessed sensitivity and specificity of the Vitalograph® lung monitor compared with post-bronchodilator confirmatory spirometry
Screening for GH, TSH and ACTH deficiencies36in all patients with macroadenoma and microadenoma 6–9 mm in size at diagnosis was discussed; the consensus was to retest pituitary function after effective dopamine agonist therapy depending on baseline pituitary deficiencies and mass extension, as wel...
In particular, we discuss the use of speckle-tracking strain in selected areas, such as undifferentiated left ventricular hypertrophy, cardio-oncology, aortic stenosis, and ischemic heart disease. The potential utility of regional and chamber strains (namely segmental left ventricular strain, left ...
The window for measurement of RVOT size has not been standardized, and oblique imaging of the RVOT may underestimate or overestimate its size. The endocardial definition of the anterior wall is often suboptimal. Recommendations: In studies on select patients with congenital heart disease or ...
The inter-rater reliability between the two reviewers was good for the title and abstract screening (κ = 0.88) and full-text screening (κ = 0.82). The flowchart for the selection process is shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 1 Flow diagram of selection process. MH mental health, PA ...
It thus seems that, rather than negating a rationale for a disease view of addiction, the important implication of the polygenic nature of addiction risk is a very different one. Genome-wide association studies of complex traits have largely confirmed the century old “infinitisemal model” in ...