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This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.
Back in 2011 member countries of the World Health Organization, the WHO, came up with a plan to cut mortality from noncommunicable diseases 25 percent by the year 2025. The program was thus called the 25 X 25 Initiative. And it identified various health risk factors, such as smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and a sedentary lifestyle. What the Initiative did not include as a risk factor for poor health was poverty.
An international team of researchers thus decided to look at poverty as a possible driver of noncommunicable illness. They pored over data from 48 previously published studies that included socioeconomic information. Together these studies included some 1.75 million subjects from seven high-income countries in the WHO. And the research team found that being poor was more dangerous than obesity or high alcohol intake. The study is in the journal The Lancet.
The results were reported in terms of years of life lost between the ages of 40 and 85. Being a current smoker was associated with 4.8 years of lost life, diabetes with 3.9 years and physical inactivity with 2.4 years. Being of low socioeconomic status was almost as bad as inactivity, with 2.1 years of lost life. High blood pressure only accounted for 1.6 years lost and high alcohol intake was good for—or bad for—0.5 years gone.
Because of these findings, the researchers wrote that the results "suggest that socioeconomic Circumstances...should be treated as a target for local and global health strategies, health risk surveillance, interventions, and policy." In other words, part of treating disease is treating poverty.
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这里是科学美国人——60秒科学。我是史蒂夫·米尔斯基。
2011年，世界卫生组织（简称WHO）成员国提出了一项计划：到2025年，将非传染性疾病致死率减少25%。因此，该计划被称为“25×25倡议”。这一倡议确定了各种健康风险因素，比如吸烟、高血压、糖尿病和久坐不动的生活方式。但是该倡议并未将贫穷纳入不健康的风险因素。
因此，一个国际研究小组决定调查贫困是否是非传染性疾病的驱动因素。他们仔细阅读了48份已经发表的研究，其中包括社会经济信息。这些研究包括来自世卫组织7个高收入成员国的175万名调查对象。研究小组发现，贫穷比肥胖症或酗酒更加危险。这项研究结果发表在《柳叶刀》期刊上。
研究报告记录了40岁至85岁人群的寿命损失年。现时吸烟者的寿命会减少4.8年，糖尿病患者的寿命会减少3.9年，缺乏运动人群的寿命会减少2.4年。而社会经济地位低的人群的寿命会减少2.1年，他们的情况和缺乏运动人群的情况差不多一样糟糕。高血压只会使寿命减少1.6年，而酗酒则会使寿命减少0.5年。
基于这些发现，研究人员写道，研究结果“表明社会经济地位应当被看作地方和全球策略的目标，也应该被看作健康风险监测、干预和政策的目标。”换而言之，从某种程度上说，治疗疾病就是解决贫穷。
谢谢大家收听科学美国人——60秒科学。我是史蒂夫·米尔斯基。
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重点讲解
重点讲解：
1. come up with 想出，提出(计划、想法等)；
例句：Several of the members have come up with suggestions of their own.
有几位成员提出了自己的建议。
2. pore over 仔细阅读；认真钻研；
例句：He spent hours poring over the statistics.
他花了数小时钻研这些统计数据。
3. account for 导致；解释；
例句：Now, the gene they discovered today doesn't account for all those cases.
不过，他们现在发现的基因无法解释所有的病例。
4. in other words 换言之；换句话说；也就是说；
例句：In other words, none of us can go to the movie.
换句话说，我们都不能去看电影。
