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- adjective Alternative spelling of
presymptomatic .
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Examples
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Researchers randomly assigned 3,120 pre-symptomatic patients from 30 countries to receive carotid endarterectomy either as soon as possible or not until symptoms appeared.
Why You Forget Birthdays Jeremy Singer-Vine 2010
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"The hypothesis is that if we give pre-symptomatic people these treatments we should be able to see some evidence of the effects," Tariot says.
Researchers hope to quell a surge of Alzheimer's cases with new diagnostic tools 2010
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Typically, secondary prevention strategies attack early, pre-symptomatic stages of the disease.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Typically, secondary prevention strategies attack early, pre-symptomatic stages of the disease.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Typically, secondary prevention strategies attack early, pre-symptomatic stages of the disease.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Incidental findings are often life-saving because they discover pre-symptomatic problems, and the study suggests that radiologists look more carefully for them when a patient photograph is attached.
Say Cheese: Do Photos Help Doctors See Patients Better? 2008
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There are, however, great variations in pre-symptomatic incubation times and how aggressively the disease progresses.
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"It may well be that amyloid imaging will join colonoscopy, mammography, etc. as mid-life surveillance tests, and that anti-amyloid interventions are most effective in the pre-symptomatic stages of Alzheimer's disease," said Dr. Sam Gandy, the Mount Sinai Chair in
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The researchers found that people whose brain scans detected pre-symptomatic Alzheimer's disease were twice as likely to fall as those who had normal scans.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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But I will say that when I look at what we've achieved in medicine, we've really made a difference by going to a preclinical or a pre-symptomatic stage of the disease.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com webmaster@huffingtonpost.com 2012
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