{"id":34311,"date":"2015-05-28T09:52:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T08:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=34311"},"modified":"2015-05-28T14:31:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T13:31:39","slug":"the-bmj-today-more-evidence-on-the-harms-of-overdiagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/05\/28\/the-bmj-today-more-evidence-on-the-harms-of-overdiagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"The BMJ Today: More evidence on the harms of overdiagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/05\/hip_fracture_xray.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34312\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/05\/hip_fracture_xray-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"hip_fracture_xray\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h2088\">\u2022 More evidence on the harms of over diagnosis<\/a>: Teppo J\u00e4rvinen and colleagues<br \/>\nargue that evidence for stratifying risk of fracture and subsequent drug therapy to prevent hip fracture is insufficient to warrant our current approach. Being labelled as at risk of fracture imposes a psychological burden. Drug treatment is associated with adverse events, such as gastrointestinal problems, atypical femoral fractures, and osteonecrosis of the jaw.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/05\/contraception_pill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34313\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/05\/contraception_pill-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Oral contraceptive pills are known to be associated with an increased risk of thromboembolism. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h2135\">Yana Vinogradova and colleagues<\/a>\u00a0show that risks of venous thromboembolism associated with combined oral contraceptives are, with the exception of norgestimate, higher for newer drug preparations than for second generation drugs in two nested case-control studies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In a blog post about patient perspectives, <a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/05\/27\/nicki-haywood-a-carers-perspctive-on-how-doctors-can-help-patients-with-mnd\/\">Nicki Haywood writes about\u00a0a carer\u2019s perspective<\/a> on how doctors can help patients with motor neurone disease.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Georg R\u00f6ggla<\/strong> is an associate editor for <\/em>The BMJ<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 More evidence on the harms of over diagnosis: Teppo J\u00e4rvinen and colleagues argue that evidence for stratifying risk of fracture and subsequent drug therapy to prevent hip fracture is insufficient to warrant our current approach. Being labelled as at risk of fracture imposes a psychological burden. Drug treatment is associated with adverse events, such [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/05\/28\/the-bmj-today-more-evidence-on-the-harms-of-overdiagnosis\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5750],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bmj-today"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}