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email article Carotid artery stenosis screening still can t be recommended in the absence of symptoms, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded. No substantial evidence has turned up in the years since its last D-grade recommendation against screening for asymptomatic adults in 2014, argued the group led by Alex H. Krist, MD, MPH, of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Using a reaffirmation process, the USPSTF concludes with moderate certainty that the harms of screening for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis outweigh the benefits, they wrote in They pointed to false-positives with duplex ultrasonography in a general population with low prevalence, inadequate evidence that screening prevents stroke or death, and risk of small to moderate harms from screening for and treatment of asymptomatic cases.

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