Sentence examples for true preventive from inspiring English sources
It is unclear whether metformin slowed down the progression of prediabetes to diabetes (true preventive effect), or the decrease of diabetes in the treated population was simply due to its glucose-lowering action (treatment effect).
The true preventive effect of smoking cessation may therefore be smaller.
To address the differences in report of true preventive services versus diagnostic services, analyses for PSA testing, mammography, and colorectal cancer testing were recomputed using only true preventive codes [ 20].
This study has the ability to identify, for the first time, the true preventive effects of folic acid on recurrence of oral clefts, using a dose that has proved effective in preventing recurrences of NTDs [ 118].
The no intervention control condition will enable us to test a true preventive effect of the intervention (see Compas et al. [ 9] for a discussion of how active-control conditions restrict conclusions about preventive effects), in addition to being able to estimate the clinical value and cost-effectiveness of the intervention in comparison to currently available support.
This is particularly true in preventive medicine, since such therapy can create one disease in trying to prevent another that might not occur at all.
So, the trim-and-fill method gave a more conservative estimate of the true effect of preventive interventions for LBP, with a mean effect of d+ = 0.74.
Usually non-participants are more likely to have unhealthy lifestyles and the present data, if anything, may overestimate the true standard of preventive medicine across Europe.
Pragmatic randomised trials can establish the true benefits of preventive treatment in individuals at high risk of thromboembolic events and the exact cut-offs for treatment where the benefits will outweigh the risks.
Therefore, the true effectiveness of available preventive programs in this important setting is questionable.
Second, we assumed that data from the questionnaire reliably indicated the true extent of primary preventive activities.
