《中英對照讀新聞》Smoking linked to earlier menopause 抽菸讓更年期提早( 自由時報 )
發佈日期： 2011-11-01
《中英對照讀新聞》Smoking linked to earlier menopause 抽菸讓更年期提早
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Women who smoke may hit menopause about a year earlier than those who don’t light up, according to a new look at past research. That’s important because the age at which women stop getting their periods may influence their risk of bone and heart diseases as well as breast cancer.
重新觀察過去研究顯示，抽菸的女性比不抽菸的女性提早約一年進入更年期。這項結果之所以重要，是因為女性停經的年齡，或許會影響她們罹患骨骼與心臟疾病以及乳癌的風險。
Study author Volodymyr Dvornyk, from the University of Hong Kong, said that women should be aware of this effect and possible health consequences of smoking, in addition to its other known risks. He and his colleagues scanned the literature and found that women who were current smokers hit menopause a year earlier, on average, than non-smokers.
來自香港大學的研究作者德沃尼克說，除了抽菸其他已知的風險之外，女性應該知道抽菸的此一影響，以及對健康的可能後果。他與他的同僚遍讀文獻，發現目前抽菸的女性，平均比非吸菸者早一年進入更年期。
That data came from six studies including about 6,000 women in the U.S., Poland, Turkey and Iran. Non-smokers hit menopause between age 46 and 51, on average, depending on the study population. In all but two of the studies, smokers were younger -- between 43 and 50, overall.
那份數據來自包括美國、波蘭、土耳其、伊朗約6千名女性的6份研究。非吸菸者平均在46歲與51歲間進入更年期，取決於研究族群的不同。除了兩份研究之外，在所有研究中，吸菸者整體來說較年輕（即進入更年期），在43與50歲之間。
Dvornyk and his colleagues also analyzed five other studies that used a cutoff age of 50 or 51 to group women into "early" and "late" menopause. Out of more than 43,000 women in that analysis, women who smoked were 43 percent more likely than nonsmokers to have early menopause.
德沃尼克與同僚也分析另5份使用截至50或51歲女性的研究，將女性分為「早」或「晚」進入更年期兩組。那份分析的4萬3千多名女性中，抽菸女性比不抽菸女性早進入更年期的可能性高43％。
