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Science and Technology Healthy living Mind and body 健康生活 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 often produce handy pick-up lines. Recent work onthe genetics of disease, however, suggest a way of opening a conversation with thatsolitary attractive stranger in a bar: loneliness can make you ill. 科学有很多用处，但是它通常不会给你顺口的搭讪理由。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.According to a paper published last year in the Public Library of Science, Medicine, the effecton mortality of loneliness is comparable with that of smoking and drinking. It examined,and combined the results of, 148 previous studies that followed some 300,000 individuals foran average period of 7.5 years each, and controlled for factors such as age and pre-existingillness. It concluded that, over such a period, a gregarious person has a 50% better chanceof surviving than a lonely one. 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。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。文章仔细检查了148个先前的研究，并综合其结果，还控制了诸如年龄和已患疾病此类因素，最后下结论：超过这样一段时间，一个爱交际的人比一个孤独的人的生存率高50%。 | 
