But since women who take the hormone tend to be better educated, less likely to smoke and more likely to eat balanced diets and exercise, it was hard for researchers to tell whether the therapy or other factors in their lives contributed to their lower risk.
Through the sharing of their narrative life stories, these individuals described how meaning in their lives contributed to a sense of self that allowed them to embrace life with a sense of purpose and enthusiasm.
Discussion: Although other circumstances of the children's lives contributed to their poor psychosocial adjustment, the long interval of silence about the illness also played a part in their poor adjustment.
These impairments have far-reaching consequences and adversely impact patients' lives, contributing to impaired ability to perform activities of daily living, to decreased quality of life for patients and relatives, to increased medical costs, and to inability to return to work [11, 12]; however, patients rarely undergo rehabilitation during or after critical illness.
Some new treatments, like the cancer drug Gleevec and implantable heart defibrillators, undoubtedly save lives, contributing to the United States' reputation for medical breakthroughs.
They also offer evidence that, to a lesser extent, particular romantic patterns of the mother — namely introducing lots of boyfriends into children's lives — contribute to the risk.
But local businessmen say that his nurturing of family values has made a difference for them in keeping young workers, and that happier, more stable family lives contribute to more productive workers.
Though they differ in temperament and outlook, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton personify versions of Lasch's self-protecting privileged class, whose careers and lives contribute to the breakdown of an inclusive, national democratic culture.
My brother and sister-in-law, despite very busy lives, contribute time and energy, as well as money, to Habitat for Humanity and take pride in how their efforts help others.
The charity said people were being forced to pay a "dementia tax", because they have paid tax all their working lives contributing towards the NHS but when they become ill in later life they are paying out again to cover costs of care.
Others have focused on the inner mechanisms of this process, so to speak, asking how the unconscious desires of women are constituted such that their psychical lives contribute to their gender and sexuality.
