Comparando riscos e beneficios

Existem vários exemplos de rastreamento benéfico. Talvez o mais amplamente usado em adultos seja a verificação de fatores de risco relativos a doença cardíaca e AVC, realizada de modo rotineiro nos postos de saúde. Existe evidência crível de que pressão alta, níveis altos de colesterol no sangue e consumo de tabaco aumentam o risco dessas doenças e que identificação, aconselhamento e tratamento desses fatores podem prevenir ataques cardíacos e AVC.

Nessa sub-seção:

  • Benefícios do rastreamento da fenilcetonúria
  • Rastreamento do aneurisma da aorta abdominal: proceder com cuidado
  • Rastreamento do câncer de mama: bem estabelecido, mas ainda controverso
  • Rastreamento do câncer de próstata: prejuízos claros com benefícios vagos
  • Rastreamento do câncer de pulmão: precoce, mas não o suficiente?
  • Testes genéticos: por vezes uteis, frequentemente duvidosos.
  • Ichalmers

    This fragment of text, which is to introduce the subsections that follow, does need a page on its own. Go by the fonts of subsection titles for order the material.

  • Ichalmers

    I should have written ‘doesn’t need a page on its own’ in the previous comment

  • Douglas Badenoch

    This will mean that the six pages linked from this page are “promoted” to the same level as “lessons from neuroblastoma screening”

    I will do this, but we still need to think what happens to the text “There are many examples of beneficial screening. Perhaps the most widely used in adults is the checking of risk factors for heart disease and stroke that is routinely done in primary care. There is good evidence that high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol levels, and tobacco smoking increase the risk of these diseases, and that identifying, advising, and treating people with such risk factors can prevent heart attacks and strokes.”

    i.e. where does this text appear? On the “Earlier is not necessarily better” landing page? (http://template.testingtreatments.org/home/earlier-is-not-necessarily-better/)