The phrase "adjusting for life" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing the need to adapt or make changes in response to life's circumstances or challenges.
Example: "When planning for retirement, it's essential to consider adjusting for life changes such as health issues or family dynamics."
Alternatives: "adapting to life" or "modifying for life's challenges".
Observed post-election life years were compared between elected candidates and runners-up, adjusting for life expectancy at time of election.
The model measured the time from last election until death (or end of the study period) for all candidates, adjusting for life expectancy at the time of election.
In this case, adjusting for life history variables during pregnancy would probably add information on siblings' correlations because of their exposure to possible different environments in utero.
Boardman et al. (2008) found h = 0.52 for men and h = 0.38 for women in a study of US adult twins, where resilience was indirectly defined as the residual variance in positive mood after adjusting for life stressors.
Model 2 additionally adjusted for life course socio-economic position, a proxy of early living conditions (leg length) [19], [31] and lifestyle.
We adjusted for life style factors (SES, partnership, physical activity, alcohol use), the traditional cardiovascular risk factors (smoking status, diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, family history of myocardial infarction) and psychopharmacological treatments.
Being obese (HSV-2 prevalence 15.9 and 34.9% for men and women respectively) or overweight (HSV-2 prevalence 16.7 and 29.3 for men and women respectively) was not associated with HSV-2 antibodies (HSV-2 prevalence for normal BMI: 15.6 and 23.2% respectively), independent of whether the association was adjusted for life time sexual partners or not.
Upon further analysis, adjusting for additional life stressors, the study still found the presence of children and not other stressors associated with nonadherence [ 62].
Adjusting for negative life events, or increasing stress scores, greatly attenuated the association of female gender with MDD, indicating that the effect of gender was mediated through more proximate social factors.
Turning to studies from other countries, an analysis from the British Women's Heart and Health Study shows a positive association between area deprivation and the prevalence of diagnosed T2D that persisted after adjusting for individual life-course SES [ 5].
Consistent with this argument, we have found that women who were born in the Mountain division were least likely to be obese in both middle and late adulthood, even after adjusting for mid-life sociodemographic characteristics and health behaviors.
