有关睡眠质量问题的研究

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report.

"Sleep-disordered breathing" is a term for a group of conditions that can interfere with normal breathing while people sleep.

These include snoring , mouth-breathing and sleep apnea.

Sleep-disordered breathing can do more than just leave people feeling tired the next day. It can also affect people's health. In children the effects can include behavioral and emotional problems.

In a new study, researchers asked parents about their children's breathing from when they were babies up to about age six. The parents also answered questions about behavior at ages four and seven. The study involved about eleven thousand children.

Karen Bonuck at the Einstein College of Medicine in New York led the study.

KAREN BONUCK: "The central finding overall is that

sleep-disordered breathing is associated with a fifty percent increase in adverse neurobehavioral outcomes."

Those problems include hyperactivity, aggressiveness and problems relating to other children.

Ms. Bonuck says the more serious the breathing problems, the more serious the behavioral issues were likely to be. Other studies have linked sleep with children's behavior, but this study was extensive enough

to reject other possible causes.

The study appears in the journal Pediatrics. An estimated one child in ten snores regularly. A smaller number suffer from other

sleep-disordered breathing.

How well do you sleep? A popular belief is that sleep gets worse with age. But, in another new study, those who reported the fewest problems with the quality of their sleep were people in their eighties. Researchers did a telephone survey of more than one hundred fifty thousand American adults. Michael Grandner at the University of Pennsylvania medical school says the original goal was

to confirm that aging is connected with increased sleep problems.

The survey did find an increase during middle age, worse in women than men. But except for that, people reported that their

sleep quality improved as they got older. At least they felt it did. Mr. Grandner says, "Even if sleep among older Americans is actually worse than in younger adults, feelings about it still improve with age." The findings appear in the journal Sleep. In the study, health problems and depression were linked with poor sleep. Also, women reported more sleep disturbances and tiredness than men.

But, based on the study, Mr. Grandner says older people who are not sick or depressed should be reporting better sleep. "If they're not, they need to talk to their doctor. They shouldn't just ignore it," he says. Nor should their doctor ignore it. He says health care providers

generally dismiss sleep complaints from older adults as a normal part of aging.

And that's the VOA Special English Health Report. I'm Jim Tedder.

1.snore vi.打鼾

Mary accused her husband of snore too loudly.

玛丽指责她丈夫打呼噜太响。

2.behavioral adj.行为的

The study of the cultural, behavioral, and sociological aspects of spatial distances between individuals.

人类空间统计学研究人与人之间空间距离的文化，行为，社会层面的学科。

3.overall a.全面(部)的ad.总的来说

Overall, the tone of the book is satirical/the book is satirical in tone. 总的说来，这本书是讽刺性的。

4.hyperactivity n. 活动过度, 极度活跃

Postpartum depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and low IQs are all linked to low DHA levels.

产后情绪低落，精神不振并且IQ不高与DHA的水平有关。

5.disturbance n.扰乱，打扰；骚乱；心神不安，烦恼

The noise of cars passing along the road is a continual disturbance to our quiet at home.

马路上来往的车辆声音不断地破坏我们家的安宁。

这里是美国之音慢速英语健康报道。

“睡眠紊乱呼吸”是一个属于，是指一些能干扰睡眠时正常呼吸的状况，包括打鼾、嘴巴呼吸和睡眠窒息。睡眠紊乱呼吸不仅使人第二天感到疲倦，还会影响人的健康，对儿童来说，这些影响还包括行为和情绪问题。

在一份新研究中，研究者询问父母孩子从出生到大约6个月期间的呼吸状况，父母们还回答关于孩子4到7岁间的行为问题。这份研究涉及大约1.1万名儿童。

纽约爱因斯坦医学院的Karen Bonuck是这项研究的负责人。

Karen Bonuck：“整体上来看，研究的核心发现是，睡眠紊乱呼吸与不利神经行为后果50%的增量有关。”

这些问题包括多动症、攻击性强和与儿童有关的其他问题。

Bonuck说，呼吸问题越严重，行为问题也越严重。其他研究已将睡眠和儿童行为联系起来，但这项研究非常广泛，足以排除其他可能原因。

这项研究发表在《儿科》杂志上，估计有十分之一的孩子定期打鼾，其他患有睡眠紊乱呼吸症的孩子比例更小。

你睡得有多好？流行的观念是，年龄越大睡眠越差。但在另一项新研究中，报道睡眠问题最少的，是那些80多岁的人。

研究者对超过15万美国成年人进行电话调查，宾夕法尼亚大学医学院的Michael Grandner说，研究的最初目标是，证实睡眠与不断增加的睡眠问题有关。

调查发现中年有不断增加的睡眠问题，而且女性比男性要严重。除此之外，人们称随着年龄的增长，睡眠质量会改善。至少他们感觉如此。

Grandner说，“尽管老年美国人的睡眠质量确实比年轻人要差，但人们觉得随着年龄增加，睡眠会有所改善。”

这些发现发表在《睡眠》杂志上，在这份研究中，健康问题和抑郁与睡眠不佳有关。而且，报道称女性的睡眠障碍和疲劳比男性要严重。

但是，基于这项研究，Grandner说，无病、不抑郁的老人的睡眠应该更好。“如果睡得不好，他们应该去找医生，而不该忽略这个问题。”他们的医生也不该忽略这个问题，他说，医护人员通常会忽视老年人的睡眠问题，将之视为衰老的正常表现之一。