They perceived prevention as an important task and felt a responsibility to provide preventive services.
As eating disorders have severe consequences, they require prevention.
Diseases vary greatly in how they suggest prevention or treatment as the appropriate strategy.
For commercial chemicals and pollutants, particularly when human data are not available, they guide prevention strategies to reduce environmentally associated cancers by reducing exposures (Huff 1996; Rall 2000).
In the main, they are prevention programmes, seeking to avert future problems by working with parents when children are young(Gomby, Culross, & Behrman, 1999; Olds, Hill, Robinson, Song, & Little, 2000).
Of these, 16 articles were excluded as they addressed prevention of eating disorders or presented data from participants who did not fulfil a diagnosis of an eating disorder (n = 6), they did not use a controlled design (n = 5), they were addressing relapse prevention (n = 1) or they did not use internet-based therapy as the mode of delivery (n = 4).
Their proponents say they save money because they focus on prevention and prompt attention to emerging problems, which can prevent costly complications.
But, if they don't have access to prevention they are more likely to need treatment and care which will cost the NHS dear.
For the 49 preventable AEs, they selected 110 prevention strategies.
"We need to find out when these amyloid plaques accumulate, how advanced they are by the time they enter the prevention trial," Dr. Reiman said.
