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Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of disease that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's ordinarily expected lifetime [1] and thus presents no practical threat regardless of being pathologic. Overdiagnosis is a side effect of screening for early forms of disease.
Large, high quality research has found small differences in the brain between ADHD and non-ADHD patients. [1] [15] Jonathan Leo and David Cohen, critics who reject the characterization of ADHD as a disorder, contended in 2003 and 2004 that the controls for stimulant medication usage were inadequate in some lobar volumetric studies, which makes it impossible to determine whether ADHD itself or ...
Another example of overdiagnosis happened with thyroid cancer: its incidence tripled in United States between 1975 and 2009, while mortality was constant. [29] In South Korea, the situation was even worse with 15-fold increase in the incidence from 1993 to 2011 (the world's greatest increase of thyroid cancer incidence), while the mortality ...
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Overscreening, also called unnecessary screening, is the performance of medical screening without a medical indication to do so. Screening is a medical test in a healthy person who is showing no symptoms of a disease and is intended to detect a disease so that a person may prepare to respond to it. Screening is indicated in people who have some ...
Description: The Heart Protection Study is a large randomized controlled trial by the Medical Research Council (MRC) in the United Kingdom. It studies the use of statin ( simvastatin 40 mg) medication and vitamin supplementation ( vitamin E , vitamin C and beta carotene ) in patients that are at risk for cardiovascular disease .
The Cougars' undefeated season ended on Saturday night. BYU tumbled seven spots after its late-night loss to Kansas in Week 12. The Cougars are now at No. 14 in the AP Top 25 after the Jayhawks ...
Specialist abstracting and indexing database dedicated to public health research and practice. Contains scientific records from 1973 to the present. Subscription CABI: HCI Bibliography: Human–computer interface: An electronic bibliography for most of HCI for researchers, developers, educators, and students. Over 126,000 publications.