Cohort Follow-up Studies: Cardiovascular Disease
Screening programs for coronary heart disease risk factors have incited the public’s awareness of hypertension control and dietary components of hypercholesterolemia. Breast cancer screening by mammography for early malignancies combined with effective cancer therapies have contributed to the high 5-year survival rates for this cancer site. According to research findings, breast cancer screening is efficacious for women 50 years of age and older.
Exhibit 11–1 describes one opinion regarding the current debate over the effectiveness of screening women who are in the 40- to 49-year-old age group. This chapter discusses screening for disease in the population, including reliability and validity of measures, concepts and terminology of screening, sensitivity, and specificity as well as positive and negative predictive values.
Should Women Aged 40 Through 49 Years Receive Routine Mammography Screening?
