儿童和成人睡眠新发现(1/2)
概括：有研究发现睡眠呼吸障碍影响人类健康。对于儿童则可能引起行为和情感上的问题。Hints:
Karen Bonuck
Einstein College of Medicine
New York
Pediatrics
友情提醒：sleep-disordered
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答疑：凌云飞雪http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201203/201203170235566409016.mp3"Sleep-disordered breathing" is a term for a group of conditions that can interfere with normal breathing while people sleep. These include snoring, mouth-breathing and sleep apnea. Sleep-disordered breathing can do more than just leave people feeling tired the next day. It can also affect people's health. In children the effects may include behavioral and emotional problems.
In a new study, researchers asked parents about their children's breathing from when they were babies up to about age six. The parents also answered questions about behavior at ages four and seven. The study involved about 11,000 children.
Karen Bonuck at the Einstein College of Medicine in New York led the study."The central finding overall is that sleep-disordered breathing is associated with a 50% increase in adverse neurobehavioral outcomes." Those problems include hyperactivity, aggressiveness and problems relating to other children.
Ms. Bonuck says the more serious the breathing problems, the more serious the behavioral issues were likely to be. Other studies have linked sleep with children's behavior, but this study was extensive enough to reject other possible causes.
The study appears in the journal Pediatrics. An estimated one child in ten snores regularly. A smaller number suffer from other sleep-disordered breathing.“睡眠呼吸紊乱症”是指能影响人们睡眠时正常呼吸的一类病症，它包括打鼾、口呼吸以及睡眠时的呼吸暂停。睡眠呼吸紊乱症不仅会导致患者醒后疲惫不堪，严重时还会影响患者的身体健康。其对儿童的影响主要在于能够导致儿童出现各类行为以及情感方面的问题。
在新开展一项研究之中，研究人员询问了家长们孩子从出生到六岁时的呼吸状况，以及孩子四到七岁时的行为举止状况。研究对象大约为11,000名儿童。
该研究的开展者是来自纽约市爱因斯坦医学院的卡伦•伯努克。“总体看来，睡眠呼吸紊乱症使得神经行为不正常人群总数增加了50%”，她说道。造成的后果主要有多动症、易怒、以及无法与其他小孩相处融洽。
伯努克女士说道，呼吸问题越严重，其对行为举止的影响就越恶劣。虽然有其它研究分析了睡眠对儿童行为问题的影响，但这项研究的广度和深度可以确保排除其他的病因。
上述研究结果公布于《儿科医学期刊》。据估计，十分之一的儿童睡觉时经常打鼾，而另有少部分儿童患有其它种类的睡眠呼吸紊乱症。
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