Your birthday may be more important than you think when it comes your health.
考慮到健康因素，你的生日可能比你想象的更重要。

Scientists at Columbia University used an algorithm to identify “significant?associations” between the time a year a person is born and 55 diseases, including ADHD, asthma and heart disease. The new study, which was published in the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association, concludes that people born in May have the lowest overall risk for disease, while people born in October have the highest.
哥倫比亞大學(xué)的科學(xué)家們通過某種算法發(fā)現(xiàn)生日和55種疾病之間存在明顯聯(lián)系，這些疾病包括小兒多動(dòng)癥、哮喘和心臟病。這一新研究發(fā)表在《美國醫(yī)療信息學(xué)協(xié)會(huì)雜志》上，它的結(jié)論認(rèn)為，五月出生的人得病幾率最低，而十月出生的人幾率最高。

易詞解詞（BY 稻草人語）

significant

significant 一詞來自動(dòng)詞signify“表示…的意思”加形容詞后綴-ant構(gòu)成，字面意思是【具有重要含義的】。動(dòng)詞signify則由名詞sign“符號(hào)”加動(dòng)詞后綴-ify“使成為”構(gòu)成，字面意思是【使成為符號(hào)，使具有含義】。-ify后綴在名詞/形容詞之后構(gòu)成對(duì)應(yīng)的使動(dòng)動(dòng)詞，對(duì)比：

后綴-ify動(dòng)詞

翻譯

基礎(chǔ)詞

基礎(chǔ)詞含義

amplify

擴(kuò)大

ample

廣大的

clarify

澄清

clear

清澈的

classify

分級(jí)

class

級(jí)別

diversify

使多樣化

diverse

多樣的

exemplify

舉例

example

例子

horrify

使感到恐怖

horror

恐怖

identify

識(shí)別

ident

身份

intensify

增強(qiáng)

intense

強(qiáng)烈的

justify

證明合法

just

合法的

magnify

放大

magnus

大的

modify

修改

mode

模子

notify

通知

note

標(biāo)注

signify

意味

sign

符號(hào)

simplify

簡化

simple

簡單的

specify

指定

species

樣式

terrify

恐嚇

terror

恐懼

testify

證明

test

檢驗(yàn)

verify

判定

very

正確

Though previous research had explored the connection between disease risk and birth season, this study confirmed 39 associations as well as laid out 16 new ones. Researchers looked at more than 1,600 diseases and 1.7 million patients treated in New York between 1985 and 2013 to identify the months most associated with asthma (October and July babies), ADHD (November babies, matching a Swedish study), and nine kinds of heart disease. They plan to replicate the study in other locations, to better identify the environmental factors contributing to such disparities.
盡管之前有研究探索了患病風(fēng)險(xiǎn)和出生季節(jié)的聯(lián)系，但此次研究確認(rèn)了39種，并對(duì)新的16種聯(lián)系加以說明。為了發(fā)現(xiàn)出生月份和哮喘（十月和七月的嬰兒最易患此?。?、小兒多動(dòng)癥（十一月嬰兒，和瑞典的一項(xiàng)研究結(jié)果一致）以及9種心臟病之間的聯(lián)系，研究人員對(duì)1985至2013年期間在紐約治療的170萬患者以及查過1600種疾病進(jìn)行分析。他們計(jì)劃在其他地區(qū)重復(fù)這一研究，以便更準(zhǔn)確的鑒別環(huán)境因素在其中起的作用。

“It’s important not to get overly nervous about these results because even though we found significant associations the overall disease risk is not that great,” said Nicholas Tatonetti, the study’s senior author and an assistant professor at Columbia University Medical Center. “The risk related to birth month is relatively minor when compared to more influential variables like diet and exercise.”
該項(xiàng)研究的主要作者，哥倫比亞大學(xué)醫(yī)學(xué)中心的尼古拉斯·塔托內(nèi)蒂教授表示：“重要的是，不要對(duì)這些結(jié)果過于緊張。雖然我們發(fā)現(xiàn)了這些明顯的聯(lián)系，但總體患病風(fēng)險(xiǎn)并不高。和飲食、鍛煉等其他因素相比，出生月份帶來的患病風(fēng)險(xiǎn)相對(duì)較小?！?/div>

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