流行病学家

The overall goal of the epidemiologist is to discover the factors essential for diseases to occur within groups and then to find the best methods to reduce or prevent those factors and other conditions detrimental to the health of communities.

流行病学家的目标就是寻找使人群得病的根本因素，在找到最好的方法去减少或预防这些因素和其他对人群健康有害的条件。

"As this study illustrates, we are learning more and more about the beginnings of heart disease and how to prevent it," said Catherine Loria, PhD., lead study author and nutritional epidemiologist with NHLBI.

"这项研究表明，我们正在学习更多的关于开端心脏病和如何防止这种行为，说："凯瑟琳。 LORIA ，博士，带头研究报告的作者和营养流行病学家与

Indonesian and international epidemiologists are trying to understand why the fatality rate there is so high.

印尼和国际流行病学家正试图了解为什么有这么高的死亡率。

"Previous studies have had people clean their hands for 30 seconds or so, but that's not what health-care workers usually do in practice, and we wanted to test the Sell Flip-up Calculator under realistic conditions," she said.

美国北卡罗来纳大学公共卫生流行病学家埃米丽-塞克伯特-博纳特说，我们分析了14种不同的手部清洁剂去除细菌和病毒的功效，而这是以前的研究不曾有过的。

But the relative risk was still quite large, says study co-author Lorelei Mucci, an epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

但相对风险也相当大，说研究的共同作者洛勒莱穆奇，一个在伯明翰大学的流行病学家和波士顿妇女医院。

One of the authors, the epidemiologist and disease modeller Neil Ferguson,who sits on the World Health Organisation's emergency committee for the outbreak,said the virus had "full pandemic potential".

流行病学家和疾病模拟者的其中一名权威Neil Ferguson，出席在世界卫生组织为这场爆发而召开的紧急委员会上，称这种病毒"完全有全国流行的可能"。

The study, published online March 18 in the journal The Lancet, was conducted in part by the eminent epidemiologist Sir Richard Peto of the University of Oxford.

这项研究发表在3月18日在线杂志柳叶刀，进行部分由著名的流行病学家理查德皮托爵士的英国牛津大学。

The idea, used by epidemiologists before, is that a greater number of snotty siblings generally exposes a child to more iruses.

流行病学家们先前所用的这个观点，有多个同胞的孩子会有更多暴露病毒的机会。

It's not surprising that patients with type 2 diabetes, presumably people who had been developing the disease for several years prior to being diagnosed, had some heart dysfunction, said Derek Stocker, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.

牛津大学的临床医生和流行病学家Amanda Adler博士表示，我们希望看到预期性的研究，以测定这些早期的异常是否具有临床上的意义，尽管超音波设备和都卜勒影像检查是相对较便宜的，Akler博士表示，也许有更便宜的检测方式。

Earlier this year, William Lassek, an epidemiologist at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, and anthropologist Steven Gaulin of the University of California, Santa Barbara, reported that women who accumulated more fat on their hips than on their waists--and who, therefore, had low waist-hip ratios like many movie stars--had higher cognitive test scores, as did their children.

今年年初，宾夕法尼亚洲匹兹堡大学流行病学家William Lassek以及圣芭芭拉加利福尼亚大学的人类学家Steven Gaulin报道说，那些臀部脂肪蓄积大于腰部—亦即类似于影星的低腰臀比身材—的女性，在认知能力测试中得分较高，而她们的子女也是如此。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。