Sentences with phrase «population screening»

Families were enrolled in the program after population screening that was conducted by community health nurses.

The evidence suggest the harms of population screening for prostate cancer outweigh the benefits, so why does it remain so popular?

• Pharmacogenetics The unit offers population screening for a number of validated polymorphisms with pharmacogenetic implications, associated with positive or negative responses to therapeutic agents.

This may permit population screening to find and treat highly infectious individuals to break the cycle of transmission, especially in developing world countries where TB is most prominent.»

In contrast, our blood - based test is minimally invasive, inexpensive, and more sensitive, thus suitable for large population screening to detect early - stage tumors.»

«The vast majority of carriers are normal behaviourally and cognitively, so population screening would not be justified,» Goldman says.

«The most effective way to diagnose the disease is not to wait for people to develop symptoms but to do population screening.»

Limitations of the study include that although there was variation in the cancer risks for mutation carriers by cancer family history, the study sample was not identified through population screening of unaffected women; therefore, the overall estimates may not be directly applicable to such women.

Overall, enhanced population screening averted 18 to 21 percent of AIDS - related deaths.

While population screening to identify MI using CMR is not likely to be cost - effective or practical, Dr Acharya said shifting a proportion of cardiac evaluation from traditional tests to CMR could diagnose more unrecognised MI.

McCabe is a wholehearted booster of population screening, and as he points to databases being compiled by military and government agencies, one can easily behold the power of this information.

Yes, he'd understood the science of DNA testing was incomplete, and that there was vigorous debate over the efficacy (and even potential downside) of population screening, and that it still wasn't clear if the process had reached the point where two different testing companies would even arrive at the same results.

He has applied to the UGC for a grant to support «population screening to determine prevalence of Huntington's disease in India,» and another as a co-investigator on a collaborative proposal sent to the DBT.

Because the population screened in this study was considered a high - risk group, and they were scheduled for high - risk screening follow - up, or suspicion of cancer, more research is needed to determine the role of fat composition in low - risk postmenopausal women, the authors say.

This type of testing is currently offered to individuals who have a family history of a genetic disease, people in certain ethnic groups with an increased risk of specific genetic diseases (population screening), and people concerned about their risk of having a child with a genetic disease.

• Conference calls for population screening of infants for developmental issues and other vulnerabilities to be available to all families with children aged 0 - 2 years.