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A search on the Corpus of Contemporary American English finds preventive beating preventative by a ratio of about 6 to 1 in current written usage, across both academic and nonacademic texts.
Like use versus utilize, my ears turn off when I hear the use of utilize or preventative by some so-called expert".
The article proposes a novel approach to combine resource efficiency and data protection and cybersecurity issues, taking a preventative "by design" focus.
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AK lesions have a risk of recurrence, however, whether recurrence may be prevented by preventative treatment is yet to be determined.
"Many of these cases could have been prevented by adequate preventative cardiac examination," said d'Hooghe, urging more electrocardiograph scans.
When Truvada, an HIV-prevention medication, was first approved for preventative use by the FDA in 2012, it received a mixed response.
Even if a child has exercise-induced asthma, or breathlessness due to cystic fibrosis these symptoms could be controlled by preventative medication or by having small rest breaks.
At best in the general-population samples (setting aside Spain-workplace), 26.1% of those with migraine in Lithuania were consulting a physician for it, triptans were in use by 11.0% in Germany, and preventative medication by 6.4%, of those who appeared to be clear candidates for it, in Netherlands.
This decrease in WNv cases following the initial epidemic year likely reflects multiple factors including increases in immunity both in bird and human populations, increased efforts at mosquito control by municipalities, and enhanced public awareness and preventative measures by individuals.
Worse, while use of preventative medication by people with > 5 migraine days/month ought by any objective standard to be close to 100%, the best we saw outside the self-selecting lay-organization members was 13.7%, and this was in an employee group with, probably, facilitated access to care.
Preventative got created from prevent by this same analogical pattern.
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Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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