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NewYork (Reuters Health) —Want to lower your risk of having heart attack? Drinkmore water, and less of everything else, new research reports.

Researchersat Loma Linda University in California found that people who drank at leastfive glasses of water each day were less likely to die from a heart attack thanthose who drank two or fewer glasses per day. In contrast(相反), people who drank a lot of otherfluids(流体) were more likely to die fromheart attack than those who drink less, with high levels of non-water drinkingin women connected with a more than twice increased risk of death.

Theresults are based on lifestyle surveys(调查)sent out in 1976 to people living in California. This analysis(分析) is based on answers from 8 820 men and12 017 women, who were all aged 38 years or older in 1976.

Theauthors, led by Dr. Jacqueline Chan, followed the participants(参与者) for 6 years and noticed their rates ofcoronary heart disease(冠心病). A total of 246 respondents(响应者) died from heart disease during thefollow-up period.

Chanand her team found that women who drank more than five 8-ounce glasses of watereach day were 41% less likely to die from heart attack during the study periodthan those who drank two or fewer glasses daily. In high water drinking men,that risk decreased by 54%.

Butwhen they looked at drinking of other fluids, including coffee, tea, juice,milk and alcohol, the risk was reversed(相反的),with heavy drinking women showing a more than twice higher risk of dying ofheart attack. Heavy non-water drinking in men was connected with a 46% increasein the risk of heart attack death.

1.About __________people in California took part in the survey started from the1970s.

A.12 017       B. 8 820

C.246 D.20 000

2.The aim to carry out the survey is to find out__________.

A.the most delicious and healthful kind of fluid in America

B.the condition of different kinds of lifestyle and their effects

C.the relation between drinking water and the heart attack risk

D.the reason why people are often likely to have a heart attack

3.Researchers found that women who drank over five glasses of water eachday__________.

A.were 41% less likely to die from heart attack than those who drank other fluids

B.would decrease 54% the risk of suffering from heart attack than those who drankless water

C.were less likely to die from a heart attack than those who drank two or fewerglasses per day

D.would reduce 46% the risk of heart attack than men who drank the same amount ofwater

4.The conclusion that the researchers drew from the survey is that__________.

A.the more water one drinks, the fewer diseases he’ll have

B.drinking more water daily can reduce the risk of heart attack

C.fresh water must be better to our health than any other food

D.fluids like coffee, tea, juice, milk and alcohol are all harmful

试题答案

答案：1D2B3C4B