Imposing a higher legal drinking age may reduce the impact of binge drinking by preventing a proportion of the 18-30 agroupoup that commonly binge drink from obtaining alcohol.
If prevention of all introductions is not feasible, efforts to reduce propagule pressure should be the goal as this may effectively prevent a proportion of invasions.
The major concern, which prevents a considerable proportion of radiation oncologists from delivering additional whole-brain irradiation, is the fear of treatment-related decline in neuro-cognitive function.
Only 14% (15 out of 109) of recurrent P. vivax infections occurred before day 39, which suggests that DHA-PQ treatment prevents a large proportion of the first relapses.
CONCLUSIONS Aggressive application of nationally recommended prevention activities could prevent a high proportion of the CAD events and strokes that are otherwise expected to occur in adults in the U.S. today.
However, a worldwide vaccine against only HPV16/18 may prevent a larger proportion of ICC in Europe, North America and Australia (≈75%), than in Africa, Central and South America and Asia (59 64%), where a larger proportion of ICC cases were associated with other HPV types.
We know, for instance, that we could prevent a greater proportion of congenital deformities of the spine and heart by fortifying our flour with folic acid.
Virtually all healthcare-associated urinary tract infections (HAUTIs) are caused by instrumentation of the urinary tract, creating an opportunity to prevent a large proportion of HAUTIs, including catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs).
"What you ultimately might be doing is preventing a certain proportion of autism from ever emerging," said David Mandell, the associate director of the Center for Autism Research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Another avenue towards preventing a small proportion hanging suicides is to focus on institutional settings where environments can be controlled.
