The phrase "a preventative effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the ability of something to prevent or reduce the likelihood of a particular outcome or issue.
Example: "The vaccine has been shown to have a preventative effect against the spread of the virus."
Alternatives: "a protective effect" or "a mitigating effect".
13 Our study is also one of the few trials that showed a preventative effect for postnatal depression, 28 29 evaluated a secondary preventive intervention where women were screened for depressive symptoms in the first two weeks postpartum, and examined the effect of any peer/lay intervention in the prevention of postnatal depression.
For this reason it cannot be excluded that CLA may be effective in vivo, however in vitro studies involving MRSA still support a preventative effect on biofilm formation [ 13].
"Our goal is to have a preventative effect, to hinder people and make them more insecure about what they are doing".
When administered in vivo, 1,25(OH)2 D3 was found to have a preventative effect on autoimmune diseases, such as murine lupus [15].
Additionally, some work suggests that the UN and other international actors can have a preventative effect, helping to deter the outbreak of civil war or escalation of low-level conflict.
Later in the study, some patients started stimulating prophylactically, i.e. in a painless state, without treating acute attacks, as a result of the unanticipated finding of a preventative effect of SPG stimulation.
In a previous meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing lithium with placebo as a long-term treatment in bipolar disorders, we observed a clear preventative effect for manic episodes; however, the effect was equivocal for depressive episodes.
However, only a small preventative effect was noted in freezing behavior, without any significant changes in cFos expression in forebrain areas.
These data suggest that treatment with GJHT had a powerful preventative effect on the induced chronic inflammatory lung disease.
Epidemiological studies suggest that exercise has a tremendous preventative effect on morbidity and premature death, but these findings need to be confirmed by randomised trials.
Thus, even maximal myeloid-expanding ligand stimulation has only a modest, and not preventative, effect on erythroid expansion even in the absence of a spleen.
