研究指出关节痛和是否下雨没有关系_BEC初级作文

研究指出关节痛和是否下雨没有关系

Are you one of those people who can tell when a storm is approaching based on your achy knees? Well, you may think you are.

你是那种可以根据自己的膝盖来判断暴风雨即将来临的人吗？你认为你是这样的。

But a new study of more than 1.5 million seniors finds no relationship between rainfall and doctor visits for pain.

但一项针对超过150万老年人的新研究发现，降雨天气和医生就诊之间并没有关系。

The idea that our bodies are barometers for all sorts of weather-related phenomena -- including changes in temperature, pressure and precipitation -- is not a new one.

我们的身体是各种天气相关的现象（包括温度，压力和降水的变化）的晴雨表，这个观点并不是一个新观点。

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"Hippocrates himself actually postulated this idea in nearly 400 B.C." said Anupam Jena, a physician at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital, who led the study.

哈佛医学院和麻省总医院的医生、负责这项研究的安努帕姆·耶拿表示：“希波克拉底实际上在公元前400年就提出了这个论点。”

"If you talk to people, I'd say millions and millions of people probably believe that things like rainfall influence symptoms of joint pain and stiffness. But if you look at the studies, there's actually been surprisingly little evidence to suggest that is true. Most of the studies have been quite small. And we were interested in thinking about whether we could approach this question in a 'big data' sort of way."