All three interventions significantly reduced distress as well as depressive symptoms over a 12 - month period, and patients maintained
those reductions over the course of the study.
Not exact matches
However, on the positive side, the No - Facebook group showed a
reduction in their cortisol levels
over the
course of the
study.
The results
of at least two recent
studies, however, suggest that
reductions in full - contact practices can be accompished safely without putting players at additional risk, while researchers continue looking for the head trauma «holy grail»: a threshold - whether it is number
of hits per week,
over the
course of the season,
of a certain force, or to a certain part
of the helmet (e.g. facemask, top
of the head) above which players are at an unacceptably high risk
of permanent brain injury.
Limiting contact practices in football to one session per week, or eliminating contact practices altogether, for example, would, according to a 2013
study [10] by researchers at the University
of Michigan, result in an 18 % to 40 %
reduction in head impacts respectively
over the
course of a high school football season.
One
study published in the Journal
of Applied Social Psychology demonstrated that expectant moms who did 45 minutes
of water aerobics twice weekly
over the
course of 6 weeks experienced an increased sense
of well - being, and a
reduction in stress and fatigue.
The new
study by Stefanie Lutz, postdoc at the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ and at the University
of Leeds, shows a 13 per cent
reduction of the albedo
over the
course of one melting season caused by red - pigmented snow algal blooms.
«Given the substantial
reduction in maternal mortality and the increase in the number
of older women
over the last 10 years, health systems in low - and middle - income countries must adjust accordingly, otherwise this trend will continue to increase,» said Dr John Beard, director
of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Department
of Ageing and Life
Course and one
of the authors
of the
study.
Households who received the test kits had a consistent
reduction in dust mite allergens
over the
course of the
study.
In a
study of twenty women ages 40 to 70 with inflammatory osteoarthritis, the researchers discovered that consuming tart cherry juice two times a day
over the
course of three weeks led to surprising
reductions in important inflammation markers — especially for those women who had the highest inflammation levels in the beginning.
Accordingly, mothers in both groups showed
reductions in depressive symptoms
over the
course of the
study.
This indicates that participants with higher levels
of depression at baseline who received the intervention showed larger
reductions in depression symptoms
over the
course of the
study.