时代周刊：看压力如何伤害心脏(图)

　　Two studies were published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the Archives of Internal Medicine. The JAMA study, led by researchers at the UniversitéLaval in Quebec, finds that first-time heart attack patients who returned to chronically stressful jobs were twice as likely to have a second attack as patients whose occupations were relatively stress-free. The study tracked 972 first-time heart attack survivors, aged 35-59, all of whom went back to work within 18 months of their heart attack for at least 10 hours a week. In periodic follow-up interviews between 1996 and 2005, those patients who reported chronic job strain were not only at higher risk for a second heart attack, but also had a markedly higher risk of death than their less-stressed peers. Studies like this may strengthen the link between stress and disease.

　　本周“美国医疗协会杂志”和“内科档案”杂志发表了两项研究。由魁北克拉瓦尔大学的研究人员所做的刊登在“美国医疗协会杂志”上的研究发现，心脏病首次发病的人回到长期处于压力之下的工作后，二次发病的可能性是那些干相对来说没有压力的工作的病人的两倍。研究跟踪了972个首次发心脏病后的幸存者，他们的年龄在35岁至59岁之间。他们中所有的人在发病后18个月内都重新回去工作，每周至少工作10小时。从1996年到2005年，在定期的追踪调查中，那些说自己长期处于工作压力下的病人不仅第二次发心脏病的风险更高，而且死亡的风险也明显高于那些从事压力小的工作的同类。这样的研究可能进一步证明压力和疾病之间的联系。