The study was of an unusual type for clinical investigations because, unlike most clinical investigations, the participants in this study did not already have a treatable condition.
Already diseases that were treatable in the past, such as tuberculosis, are often fatal now, and others are moving in the same direction.
Though NTDs are highly communicable and deadly, they are treatable with medications already available.
CONCLUSIONS: Annual eye examinations for persons diagnosed with diabetes, glaucoma, and ARMD are important for detecting potentially treatable vision loss among those already diagnosed with these conditions.
While most adolescent suicide attempts may be precipitated by interpersonal conflicts, 90percentt of the time suicidal teens are already coping with the pain of a treatable mental health condition most commonly depression or anxiety.
One of the sobering facts about cancer treatment is that it often begins when it is already too late: Studies show that an alarming number of treatable cancers are diagnosed in the advanced stages of disease.
Some 50,000 Americans each year are diagnosed with the potentially deadly, but now treatable, infection, and more than a million Americans already are known to be HIV-positive.
This review, conducted by Dame Carol Black, has already pre-empted its conclusions: eight times it describes obesity as "treatable".
In cases where malignancy has already developed, these tests can decrease mortality by finding cancer at its earliest and most treatable stages.
On the other hand, subgroup 6 could be described as non-witnessed, non-treatable initial ECG rhythm, no public AED use and death may have already occurred.
