【新闻天天译】父母的压力会影响子女健康

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Parents' stress may affect child health
父母的压力会影响子女的健康

Stressed, anxious or depressed parents could be making their children unhealthy, according to a study that followed the health of 120 children over three years.
Studies in the past have shown how stress can influence a person's own health, but there has been less research on how it can affect the health of others.
通过一项对120名孩子连续三年的研究表明，压力，焦虑和失落的父母可能会使他们的子女健康受到危害。过去的研究表明一个人的压力可以影响自身的健康，但是很少有研究表明可以影响到其他人的健康。

In the study Dr Mary Caserta and her team monitored 120 children aged between five and 10 and their parents over three years. Parents were asked to keep a weekly diary of the child's illnesses and to take a temperature measure when they got sick. Every six months the parents completed questionnaires that asked about their own psychiatric health as well as about stressful events and family conflict.
Mary Caserta博士和他的团队在三年中监测120名从5岁到10岁的孩子和他们的父母。父母被要求每周记录孩子的疾病，并且当她们生病的时候测量他们的体温。每六个月父母们要完成调查问卷，其中涉及到他们的精神状态，包括压力和家庭冲突之类的。

The researchers found a clear link between anxiety and depression among parents and an increased chance of the children being ill and having a high temperature.
研究者发现，焦虑和沮丧的父母会明显的增加孩子们生病和体温升高的几率。

The children of parents with more intense psychiatric symptoms also had a more active immune system, as measured by the level of \"natural killer\" cells and other immune components in their blood. This suggests their immune system was working harder. The research is reported in today's New Scientist magazine.
在那些具有强烈精神病征兆的父母当中，他们的孩子具有更加活跃的免疫系统，这是通过对白细胞的含量和其他血液中的免疫物质的测量所得出的结论。这表明他们的免疫系统非常活跃。这个研究结果被刊登在今天的新科学杂志上。

The research helped in \"understanding the biological impact of multiple sources of chronic stress in families on specific immune functions in a sample of generally healthy children\", the team wrote in the journal Brain Behaviour and Immunity.
这个小组在《大脑行为与免疫》杂志中写道，这个研究对“了解家庭中多样来源的生理影响的慢性作用在一个健康孩子的免疫系统”很有帮助（好绕口啊。。）

The research did not find evidence for any impact on the health of children of individual events such as family separation, neighbourhood violence or family injury, or general family conflicts.
这个研究没有发现证据表明一些个体事件，例如家庭分裂，邻居暴力或者家庭暴力，家庭冲突之类的会对孩子的健康造成影响。


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