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sec·onda·ry pre·ven·tion

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U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Secondary Prevention

    The prevention of recurrences or exacerbations of a disease that already has been diagnosed. This also includes prevention of complications or after-effects of a drug or surgical procedure.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of secondary prevention in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of secondary prevention in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of secondary prevention in a Sentence

  1. Steven Nissen:

    In secondary prevention, aspirin is important. If you have a stent, if you've had a myocardial infarction or a stroke, for all of those people, aspirin works. It provides a modest but definite benefit.

  2. Steven Nissen:

    The drug worked in primary and secondary prevention patients – that is, patients that had had event and patients who were very high risk for a first event. There were a lot of diabetics. These were very high risk people, so the drug met its expectations and probably did a lot better than a lot of people thought it would do.

  3. Howard Weintraub:

    Both groups primary and secondary prevention got benefit, which I think is impressive with the modest amount of LDL reduction.

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