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Swimming pool chlorine raises asthma, allergy risks: study
研究指出：游泳池中的氯化物会加剧哮喘病、敏感症的发作

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Swimming in chlorinated pools may increase the risk of a child getting asthma and respiratory allergies like hay fever, according to a Belgian study.
纽约当地报道（来自路透社“生活”栏）——根据一个比利时的研究指出，在加了漂白水的游泳池中游水，会让小孩增加染上哮喘和呼吸道敏感疾病——例如“花粉热”的机会。

Researchers from the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium, found that teenagers who spent more than 100 hours swimming in chlorinated pools were up to six times more at risk of having asthma than other teens.
来自比利时首都——布鲁塞尔的Louvain天主教大学的研究人员发现，在加有漂白水的游泳池游水超过100个钟的青少年相比于其他人，有多达六倍机会染上哮喘病。

"The impact of these chemicals on the respiratory health of children and adolescents appears to be much more important -- at least by a factor of five -- than that associated with secondhand smoke," toxicology professor Alfred Bernard told Reuters Health.
毒物学教授Alfred Bernard（人名）告诉路透社“健康”专栏的记者，“这些化学物对小孩和青少年呼吸道健康的影响，（至少有五分之一）比接触二手烟更加厉害。”

"The only plausible explanation" for these observations, the researchers said, is that the chlorine-based toxic chemicals in the water or hovering in the air at the pool surface caused changes in the airway and promote the development of allergic diseases. "It is probably not by chance that countries with the highest prevalence of asthma and respiratory allergies are also those where swimming pools are the most popular," said Bernard.
“最有可能的解释，”对于这一现象的发现，研究者说到，“是在水中或者夹杂在池水上空，含有氯化物的有毒物质引起风向的变化，并且加剧敏感病症的恶化。”“哮喘跟呼吸道敏感的高度流行的国家，同时也是游泳爱好者圣地，这一个巧合绝对不是偶然的。”Bernard最后说道。


Useful Expression

• chlorinated [‘klC:rineitid]  用漂白水消毒的

• respiratory [ris’paiErEtEri] adj. 呼吸的

• hay fever
  花粉热

• adolescents [Adou’lesnt]
  adj.
  青春期的, 青春的
  n.
  青少年
  
• plausible [‘plC:zebl] adj. 似是而非的

• hover [’hCve] v. 盘旋

• by chance adv. 偶然，意外地

• prevalence [‘prevElEns] n. 流行