Healthcare designed to prevent future illness and minimize progression of current illness is a powerful means to improve quality of life, minimize mortality, and decrease health care costs.
At this point in our understanding of CF, maximizing patients' nutritional status, encouraging and maintaining an active lifestyle, and minimizing the progression of chronic suppurative lung disease are essential steps to optimize an individual's potential to attain maximal peak bone mass and thereby reduce the risk of future fractures.
To date, there has been no effective therapy to minimize the progression of silicosis [ 3].
Therefore, reducing the intraglomerular pressure by RAAS blockade should minimize the progression of or even prevent glomerular disease in the absence of glycemic control.
The treatment objectives for patients with BP-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (BRONJ) are to eliminate pain, control infection of the soft and hard tissue, minimize the progression of bone necrosis and eliminate exposed bone.
Additionally, more information as to whether the GLP-1 RA can protect β-cell function and thereby minimize the progression of type 2 diabetes would be an additional important point in the positioning.
1 Therefore, the most likely and arguably the simplest explanation for the observed survival differences between these node-positive groups is that removal of positive SLNs followed by completion lymph node dissection minimized the progression of nodal disease and the associated increased risk of distant dissemination.
However, the frailty phenotype proposed by Fried in 2001 (unintentional weight loss, exhaustion, low physical activity, slow walking speed and muscular weakness) [ 1], has a broad consensus and is widely used in many countries, making it possible to implement preventive and therapeutic measures to minimize the progression of frailty and its outcomes [ 1- 3, 7- 9].
Chiropractors have a preventive strategy, maintenance care (MC), aimed towards minimizing recurrence and progression of such conditions.
Importantly, data are emerging that demonstrate its effect on minimizing disease progression in prostate cancer.
