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Mind and body 身与心 The reason loneliness could be bad for your health 孤独会对你的健康不利的原因 SCIENCE has many uses, but it doesn t oftenproduce handy pick-up lines. 科学有很多用处，但是它通常不会给你顺口的搭讪理由。 Recent work on the genetics of disease, however, suggest a way of opening aconversation with that solitary attractive stranger in a bar: loneliness can make you ill. 然而，近来对疾病遗传学的研究却给了我们一个在酒吧里跟某个孤单的吸引你的陌生人搭讪的理由：孤独会让你生病。 Lonely people, it seems, are at greater risk than the gregarious of developing illnessesassociated with chronic inflammation, such as heart disease and certain cancers. 孤独的人跟爱交际的人相比，似乎患跟慢性炎症相关的疾病如心脏病和某些癌症的风险更大。 According to a paper published lastyear in the Public Library of Science, Medicine, the effect on mortality of loneliness iscomparable with that of smoking and drinking. 据去年发表在《科学公共图书馆医学》杂志上的一篇论文称，孤独对死亡率的影响跟抽烟和酗酒相当。 It examined, and combined the results of, 148 previous studies that followed some 300,000individuals for an average period of 7.5 years each, and controlled for factors such as ageand pre-existing illness. | 
