Being a slow walker doesn't just signify you enjoy a leisurely stroll. According to new research, walking with a slow gait could be a symptom of significant deficits in physical and cognitive health.

走路慢不僅僅代表你喜歡悠閑漫步。新的研究顯示走路慢可能暗示你身體和認(rèn)知健康方面出現(xiàn)嚴(yán)重缺陷。

New findings from a longitudinal study of just over 900 New Zealanders that began back in the 1970s has found that people in their 40s who walk with a slow gait are more likely to show signs of accelerated biological ageing and compromised brain integrity.

20世紀(jì)70年代就開始了針對(duì)900多個(gè)新西蘭人進(jìn)行的縱向研究，新的研究結(jié)果發(fā)現(xiàn)40多歲時(shí)走路慢的人更可能出現(xiàn)生物老化加速和大腦完整性受損的跡象。

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"The thing that's really striking is that this is in 45-year-old people, not the geriatric patients who are usually assessed with such measures," says biomedical researcher Line J.H. Rasmussen from Duke University.

杜克大學(xué)的生物醫(yī)學(xué)研究員Line J.H. Rasmussen說：“真正引人注意的是這是在45歲的人群中出現(xiàn)的問題，而不是通常用這些方法進(jìn)行評(píng)估的老年患者?！?/div>

Rasmussen and fellow researchers examined participants from the Dunedin Study, an exceptionally long longitudinal health study that began almost five decades ago with a cohort of over 1,000 three-year-olds.

Rasmussen和其他研究人員檢查了達(dá)尼丁研究的參與者，這一研究是大約50年前開始的耗時(shí)特別長的縱向健康研究，研究對(duì)象是1000多名三歲的兒童。

In new research assessing the health of 904 of the remaining participants at the age of 45, the team found walking speed at mid-life seems to offer a unique window into life-long ageing processes that go back all the way to childhood.

新研究評(píng)估了904位健在的參與者45歲時(shí)的健康狀況，研究團(tuán)隊(duì)發(fā)現(xiàn)中年時(shí)的走路速度好像提供了一個(gè)獨(dú)特的窗口，讓我們得以了解從孩童時(shí)期就開始的、伴隨我們一生的衰老過程。

"This study covered the period from the preschool years to midlife, and found that a slow walk is a problem sign decades before old age," says Duke psychologist and neuroscientist Terrie E. Moffitt.

杜克大學(xué)的心理學(xué)家和神經(jīng)科學(xué)家Terrie E. Moffitt說：“這項(xiàng)研究涵蓋了學(xué)前到中年的階段，發(fā)現(xiàn)走路慢是一個(gè)在步入老年前幾十年就出現(xiàn)的有問題的跡象。”

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翻譯：菲菲