Sentence examples for prevent retardation from inspiring English sources
If untreated, they will accumulate phenylalanine in the blood and develop mental retardation, but careful dietary restriction can keep phenylalanine concentrations low and thereby prevent retardation.
The proposed strategies include newborn screening for preventable disorders, such as congenital hypothyroidism and phenylketonuria where immediate intervention can prevent mental retardation, and population screening for carrier detection for common recessive conditions, such as sickle cell anemia and alpha-thalassemia.
The test is used, for example, to prevent mental retardation in babies with underactive thyroid glands.
The animals were graded by size to prevent growth retardation.
Early intervention programs designed to increase intelligence and prevent mental retardation have long been a mainstay of pedagogical ideology.
GH treatment should be started early in the course of the disease if adequate nutrition and cysteamine treatment do not prevent growth retardation.
Despite claims that IHDP successfully raised intelligence and prevented mental retardation, close examination of project data reveal that these assertions are without foundation.
The goals of modern therapy, beyond preventing mental retardation, thus remain uncertain.
Provision of iodine through the iodization of salt is an effective means of preventing this retardation, and the UNICEF-Kiwanis campaign increased the world's access to iodized salt from less than 20 per cent in 1990 to more than 70 per cent by 2000.
Provision of iodine through the iodisation of salt is an effective means of preventing this retardation, and the UNICEF-Kiwanis campaign increased the world's access to iodised salt from less than 20 per cent in 1990 to more than 70 per cent by 2000.
Therefore, neonatal screening for thyrotropin (TSH) values has been established in the majority of developed countries to timely diagnose and treat congenital hypothyroidism, in order to prevent severe mental retardation.
