经济学英语阅读热点：雾霾对健康危害.pdfVIP

经济学英语阅读热点：雾霾对健康的危 害 “APEC 蓝”过后，雾霾依旧在等风来，依旧在威胁着我们的健康。小编为大家带来冲刺阶段 的延伸阅读——雾霾对健康的危害，希望大家能有所了解，无论是在阅读还是作文中碰到都 能应对自如。 近年来，国内多地频频遭遇雾霾天气袭击，民生健康问题引担忧。根据最新研究显示，呼吸 雾霾空气可能会让你的动脉硬化速度加快。 Breathing particulate-laden (aka smoggy) air may be hardening your arteries faster thannormal, according to research published recently in PLOS Medicine. While everyones’ arteriesharden gradually with age, a team of researchers led by epidemiologist Sara Adar of theUniversity of Michigan School of Public Health discovered that higher concentrations of fineparticulate air pollution were linked to a faster thickening of the inner two layers of the carotidartery. 根据近日发表在《公共科学图书馆?医学》杂志上的研究，呼吸含大量颗粒物的(雾霾)空气 可能会让你的动脉硬化速度加快。尽管每个人的动脉都会随着年龄增大而逐渐硬化，但密歇 根大学公共卫生学院的流行病学家萨拉?阿达领导的研究团队发现，空气中的细微颗粒污染 物浓度升高与颈动脉内膜和中膜增厚加快有关。 Because the carotid artery feeds blood to the neck, head, and brain, a narrowing orblockage there can trigger strokes. And general atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries,is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, heart attack, and heart failure. 由于颈动脉要向颈部、头部和大脑供血，颈动脉变窄或堵塞可能会引发中风。通常动脉硬化 是冠心病、心脏病发作和心力衰竭的主要风险因素。 Past research has demonstrated that the rates of stroke and heart attack are higher inpolluted areas, but experts haven’t been able to pinpoint just how polluted air is raisingpeoples’ risk for heart attack or stroke. This time, Adar’s team, along with Joel Kaufman,professor of environmental and occupational health sciences and medicine at the University ofWashington, was able to directly measure carotid artery thickness and link it to air pollutiondata. 以往的研究已经表明，在受污染地区中风和心脏病发作的几率更高，但专家还未能查明空气 污染是如何提高人们心脏病或中风发作的风险的。这次阿达带领的团队和华盛顿大学环境与 职业健康科学和医学专业的教授乔尔?考夫曼联手合作，已经能够直接测量颈动脉厚度，并 将其和空气污染数据联系起来。 The study involved 5,362 people between the ages of 45 and 84 living in six different citiesthat ar