2008年职称英语考试卫生类B级真题及答案(11)

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Breastfeeding Can Cut Cardiovascular（心血管的）Risk

Breastfeeding Can reduce the risk of a heart a attack or stroke later in life and could prevent hundreds of_________ (51) of deaths each year, researchers said on Friday.

Babies who are breastfed have fewer childhood infections and allergies(过敏)and are less _________(52)to obesity（肥胖）. British scientists have now shown that breastfeeding and slow growth in the first weeks and months of life has a protective effect _________ (53) cardiovascular disease.

“Diets that promote more rapid growth put babies at risk many years later in_________ (54)of raising their blood pressure, raising their cholesterol（胆固醇）and increasing their tendency to diabetes（糖尿病）and obesity—the_________ (55) main risk factors for stroke and heart attack, “said Professor Alan Lucas of the Institute of Child Health in London.

“Our evidence suggests that the reason why breast-fed babies do better is because they grow more_________ (56) in the early weeks. “

Lucas said the effects of breastfeeding on blood pressure and cholesterol later in life are greater than_________ (57)adults can do to control the risk factors for cardiovascular disease, other than taking drugs.

An estimated 1 7 million people die of_________ (58) disease, particularly heart attack and strokes, each year, according to the World Health Organization Lucas and his colleagues compared the health of 216 teenagers_________ (59)as babies had either been breastfed or given different nutritional baby formulas. They reported their_________ (60) in The Lancet medical journal.

The teenagers who had been_________ (61)had a 14--percent lower ratio of bad to good cholesterol and lower concentrations of a protein that is a marker for cardiovascular disease risk.

The researchers also found that, _________ (62)of the child’s right at birth, the faster the infants grew in the early weeks and months of life, the_________ (63)was their later risk of heart disease and stroke, The effect was the_________ (64)for both boys and girls；

“The more human milk you have in the newborn period the lower your cholesterol level is, the lower your blood pressure is 16 years _________ (65),” Lucas said.