{"id":44000,"date":"2014-07-08T10:04:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T14:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44000"},"modified":"2014-07-08T10:04:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T14:04:54","slug":"uspstf-finalizes-recommendations-on-carotid-artery-stenosis-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2014\/07\/08\/uspstf-finalizes-recommendations-on-carotid-artery-stenosis-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"USPSTF Finalizes Recommendations on Carotid Artery Stenosis Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has recommended against screening for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis in the general adult population (grade D recommendation). <a href=\"http:\/\/annals.org\/article.aspx?articleid=1886690\">Published in the <em>Annals of Internal Medicine<\/em><\/a>, the statement reiterates the group&#8217;s 2007 guidance.<\/p>\n<p>The harms of screening outweigh the benefits, the task force says. The groups notes that all screening strategies (e.g., ultrasonography, magnetic resonance angiography) &#8220;have imperfect sensitivity and could lead to unnecessary surgery and result in serious harms, including death, stroke, and myocardial infarction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The recommendation applies to adults without histories of transient ischemic attack, stroke, or other neurologic symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has recommended against screening for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis in the general adult population (grade D recommendation). Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the statement reiterates the group&#8217;s 2007 guidance. The harms of screening outweigh the benefits, the task force says. The groups notes that all screening strategies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[913,716,886],"class_list":["post-44000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-prevention","tag-carotid-artery","tag-screening-tests","tag-uspstf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}