2017考研英語閱讀沖刺精選：打太極可治失眠？
打太極可治失眠?
Poor sleep is associated with increasedinflammation, which may contribute to heart disease and a variety of other ailments. A newstudy has shown that cognitive behavioral therapy and tai chi, the Chinese exercisetechnique, may reduce both insomnia and inflammation.
睡眠不足與炎癥增加相關，而后者可能會導致心臟病和其他多種疾病。一項新研究表明，認知行為療法和中國的鍛煉技法太極拳或可同時減少失眠和炎癥。
Researchers studied 123 people with insomnia who were over age 55. They were randomizedto one of three groups. The first received two hours a week of cognitive behavioral therapyover four months, the second the same amount of tai chi practice, and the third, a controlgroup, a four-month educational program about sleep hygiene, aging and insomnia. The studywas published in Biological Psychiatry.
研究人員研究了123名年齡超過55歲的失眠癥患者，并將他們隨機分入3組。第一組接受了每周兩小時，持續四個月的認知行為療法，第二組進行同樣數量的太極拳練習，第三組是對照組，接受為期四個月的關于睡眠衛生、衰老和失眠的教育課程。該研究發表在《生物精神病學》雜志(Biological Psychiatry)上。
At one year after the treatment, compared with the control group, those on cognitivebehavioral therapy and tai chi had reduced blood levels of C-reactive protein and reducedproduction of pro-inflammatory cytokines, both indicators of inflammation.
在治療一年后，與對照組相比，接受認知行為療法者和練習太極拳者的血液C反應蛋白濃度均有所降低，促炎細胞因子的產生減少，而這兩者均是炎癥的指標。
Using blood samples, the researchers also found that both the treatment groups had lowerexpression of genes related to inflammation and increased expression of genes related toantibody response compared with the control group.
使用血液樣本，研究人員還發現，比之對照組，兩個治療組的炎癥相關基因表達均較低，抗體反應相關基因表達均較高。
“Tai chi and cognitive therapy are used to treat insomnia because, unlike medication, theyproduce no unwanted side effects,” said the lead author, Dr. Michael R. Irwin, a professor ofpsychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles.
研究的'主要作者，加州大學洛杉磯分校(University of California, Los Angeles)的精神病學教授邁克爾·R·歐文(Michael R. Irwin)博士說：“使用太極拳和認知療法來治療失眠，是因為它們不像藥物那樣會產生有害的副作用。”
“With the improvement in insomnia,” he added, “there’s a reversal of inflammation at thesystemic level and the genetic level. Inflammation contributes to cardiovascular disease,depression and cancer.”
“隨著失眠的改善，炎癥在全身和基因層次上都出現了逆轉。”他補充道，“而炎癥是心血管疾病、抑郁癥和癌癥的原因之一。”
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