Because blindness from DR is preventable from both public health screening and clinical management perspectives, it is important to precisely identify persons at risk for developing DR and those most likely to progress to severe vision-threatening stages.
Internationally, the proportion of all readmissions assessed to be preventable also varies greatly from 9-59% [ 1- 6].
11– 14 Calculation of how many catheter-associated UTIs (CAUTIs) may be preventable varies considerably with estimates from unpublished data ranging from 17%to69%9%. 15 Given recommended infection control measures, up to 380 000 infections and 9000 deaths related to CAUTIs per year could be prevented in the USA.
Evidence that much cancer is preventable derives from observations of time trends and geographic patterns of cancer, birth cohort changes, high risks in groups with well-defined exposures, and experimental studies.
While it remains to be seen whether Junior Seau's death was preventable, his suffering from CTE might have been eased by chemicals found in marijuana.
Many in the chemistry community have expressed dismay and disappointment at the settlement's apparent laxity, in light of widespread opinion that the fire was preventable and resulted from shoddy training and inadequate equipment.
"What struck me the most, and what was ultimately the driving force in creating L., was that unlike other disasters I've photographed, this crisis is preventable," she said, from her offices in Los Angeles.
The level of awareness in this community contrasts with a low rate (4%) of knowledge about OPV reported from Niger [ 12] and an equally low rate of awareness (1%) that measles was preventable by immunization from Nigeria [ 13] but comparable to the 97% of survey participants who were able to define immunization in Nairobi, Kenya [ 14].
So much of what we, as a population, from the wealthy to the poor, walk around suffering from is preventable with a good diet and exercise.
Drownings have become the leading cause of death in children under the age of 18, numbering around 18,000 a year since 2005, yet such deaths are preventable, according to researchers from the Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh.
