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

“如果你和人们交谈，我想数以百万计的人可能会相信像降雨这样的事情会影响关节疼痛和僵硬的症状。但是，如果你看看这些研究，实际上并没有什么证据表明这是事实。大部分研究的规模都比较小。我们感兴趣的是，是否可以用“大数据”的方式来解决这个问题。”

He and his colleagues looked at information collected in more than 11 million visits that older Americans made to their primary care physicians.

他和他的同事们查看了超过1100万份信息，这些信心都是在美国老年人对初级护理医师的访问中收集到的。

They compared these records with data on daily rainfall. And they asked: do more people report sore backs or swollen joints when the weather is inclement?

他们将这些信息与每日的降雨量数据进行了比较分析。之后他们发问：在天气恶劣的时候，会有更多的人报告疼痛的背部或肿胀的关节吗？

"And what we found is if you look at days where it rained versus days where it didn't rain, there is no difference in the proportion of visits to a doctor that involved a complaint of joint pain or back pain."

“我们发现，下雨与没下雨相比较时，因关节痛或腰痛而就诊的比例并没什么不同。”

They saw no "rain effect" even when it poured for seven days straight. And if you're thinking, well, what if people couldn't get an appointment until the skies cleared up…