USPSTF Recommends Against Screening for Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has been releasing new and updated guidelines periodically. Along with the release of this recommendation statement, the USPSTF has revised the way it grades its recommendations to make them more clinically useful.

Recommendations concern preventive care for patients without recognized signs or symptoms of a given condition. The USPSTF now grades the recommendations as follows (descriptions of levels of certainty can be found at the guidelines home page):

A — The service is recommended. High certainty that benefit is substantial.

B — The service is recommended. High certainty that benefit is moderate, or moderate certainty that benefit is moderate to substantial.

C — The USPSTF recommends against…