She adds that, since a lifetime of obesity may put a child at greater risk for heart disease and other health problems, parents need to be concerned about their child's weight from the very start.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

There are very interesting relationships between weight and risk for all diseases.

而体重与患病风险之间的关系也很有趣

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That constellation of risk factors that gets packed together tells you more in some cases about a person's risk for disease than if all you knew was their weight.

上述提到的一系列的风险因素,能告诉我们更多有关个人的患病风险,这比仅仅知道体重更能说明问题

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"While our study shows that this might not be sufficient to maintain normal weight, it clearly is sufficient to reduce the risk of developing many chronic diseases, including heart disease, certain types of cancer, type two diabetes."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

If you look at weight and risk of Type Diabetes you start to see something pretty interesting.

在体重和II型糖尿病患病风险的关系中,我们能得出更有趣的发现

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In this case, death from heart disease and what you see here, and I'll tell you what relative risk is in just a minute, but this is basically risk for disease over on this axis and here its weight.

在这幅图里是心脏病致死的,我会简短地介绍一下相对风险的定义,Y轴表示患病风险,X轴表示体重

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That little J shaped curve is explained primarily by cigarette smoking because that keeps weight down in people, it also makes people sick so that their weight gets low because of that, and it explains the high rates of the disease risk there.

这个小J形曲线主要是由吸烟引起的,因为吸烟一方面能让体重降低,另一方面也引起疾病,疾病让人们的体重下降,这也解释了这里的高患病风险

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