The benefits of screening are largely based on an Italian study, published in 2006, that claimed to find a nearly 90% reduction in the rate of sudden cardiac deaths in athletes as a result of screening.
The incidence of small, localised, well-differentiated prostate cancer (PCa) is increasing, mainly as a result of screening.
Three patients (15% of those screened with DUS) had stenoses greater than 80% and underwent 4 carotid endarterectomies as a direct result of screening.
Effectiveness was defined as additional life-years gained as a result of screening.
Therefore, we could have potentially underestimated the magnitude of mortality reduction as a result of screening.
This phosphonate inhibitor is a result of screening 13 000 small molecules for their ability to inhibit ATX.
Several outbreaks were halted, but they resulted in an increase in reports as a result of screening.
These findings do not suggest any major general differences in health care between the groups as a result of screening.
Estimates from our overdiagnosis model suggest a 5% reduction in the detection of invasive cancers as a result of screening.
We estimated that 5-10 HIV, 50-75 HBV and 10 syphilis cases in newborns had been prevented annually as a result of screening.
It is likely that an increase in incidence in the ES area should have occurred in the 1970s, as a result of screening.
