Tag Archives: bmj

Breast screening for over 70s doesn’t prompt sharp fall in advanced disease, study suggests

Their paper publishes as the Preventing Overdiagnosis conference opens next week where experts from around the world will discuss how to tackle the threat to health and the waste of money caused by unnecessary care. The conference is hosted by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford in partnership with The BMJ’s Too Much Medicine campaign. The upper age limit for the national breast cancer screening program was extended to women aged 69 to 75 in 1998 in the Netherlands, and national guidelines now recommend screening women up to the age of 75. …

Five daily portions of fruit and vegetables may be enough to lower risk of early death

These results conflict with a recent study published in BMJ’s Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health suggesting that seven or more daily portions of fruits and vegetables were linked to lowest risk of death. There is growing evidence that increasing fruit and vegetable consumption is related to a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease and cancer. However, the results are not entirely consistent. …