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  2. How doctors may be able to predict your stroke risk through ...

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    Changes in the eye can help predict other health concerns in the body, such as diabetes and high blood pressure. A new study has identified a set of 29 vascular health indicators on the retina ...

  3. This blood test screens for 50 different types of cancer. Is ...

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    As with most blood tests, false-negatives can happen, meaning results could come back negative when a cancer does exist — although Grail reports that negative cancer test results from Galleri ...

  4. Simple blood test could predict a person’s heart disease risk ...

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    A new approach to a routine blood test could predict a person’s 30-year risk of heart disease, research published Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine found.. Doctors have long ...

  5. Screening (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    The best studies for assessing whether a screening test will increase a population's health are rigorous randomized controlled trials.When studying a screening program using case-control or, more usually, cohort studies, various factors can cause the screening test to appear more successful than it really is. A number of different biases ...

  6. Cancer screening - Wikipedia

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    Smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer, and is the cause of death in 55% of women and 70% of men with lung cancer. [39] The US Preventative Service Task Force revised the recommendations for lung cancer screening in 2021, where annual LDCT is recommended for adults between the ages 50 and 80, who either currently smoke or have a history of ...

  7. Framingham Risk Score - Wikipedia

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    Because risk scores such as the Framingham Risk Score give an indication of the likely benefits of prevention, they are useful for both the individual patient and for the clinician in helping decide whether lifestyle modification and preventive medical treatment and for patient education, by identifying men and women at increased risk for future cardiovascular events.

  8. Polygenic score - Wikipedia

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    The two graphics illustrate sampling distributions of polygenic scores and the predictive ability of stratified sampling on polygenic risk score with increasing age. + The left panel shows how risk—(the standardized PRS on the x-axis)—can separate 'cases' (i.e., individuals with a certain disease, (red)) from the 'controls' (individuals without the disease, (blue)).

  9. Study: As many as 90 percent of cancer cases are caused by ...

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    %shareLinks-quote="Cancer risk may have more to do with lifestyle, not genetics, in as many as 90 percent of cases." type="spreadWord"% Most researchers agree cancer is likely caused by the body's ...