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So there are some women
所以很多妇女的潮热症状
who are severely affected by their hot flush
已经达到了非常严重的程度
But women who didn't complain at all about hot flushes
但虽然有的妇女自述没有潮热症状
had hot flushes during the night
但她们晚间确实也出现了潮热
and didn't know it, didn't wake up
只是她们自己不知道 没有醒过来而已
There were no differences in their sleep patterns either
她们的睡眠模式也没有什么差别
no differences in any of their self-report
自述状态也没有差别
no differences in their amount of wake time
苏醒时间长短也没有差别
So again, all these objective measures
所以这些客观测量结果
are showing the same thing
都得出了同样的结论
So what we did was looked at sleep over time
从绝经前到绝经后的这段时间里
from premenopause to postmenopause
我们所关注的问题包括
and we looked all these factors
各个方面的因素
all the biological, psychological
我们每隔6个月
social issues in their lives every 6 months
就会对她们的生物 心理和社会指标进行评估
And we looked FSH level
我们会观测试验对象的FSH水平
and FSH follicle-stimulating hormone
也就是促卵泡激素水平
gets very high when you are menopausal
当女性进入绝经期时 FSH水平会升得很高
because you don't have estrogen to counter it
因为没有雌激素去抑制FSH
so the FSH levels rise
所以FSH水平会变得很高
It's good indication of menopausal status
所以这是研究绝经状态的一个很好的指标
We looked at diet, exercise
我们还会研究她们的饮食 锻炼
a lot of diarrhea cause...
腹泻状况
I would like to hear your lecture from last week about diet
可惜我没有参加上星期关于饮食的讲座
We asked these women lots of questions about their diet
我们会提出很多关于饮食状况的问题
and did body weight
询问她们的体重变化情况
back bio-electrical impedance and so on
使用生物电阻测量法等
And we looked at stress
我们还会考察压力
and family social relationships as they change over time
以及家庭社会关系的变化情况
We had quite a group of investigators on this team
我们的研究团队中有很多的调查人员
Some of you might have actually been in this study
我们在旧金山湾区开展研究时
when we were in the San Francisco Bay Area
你们可能见过他们
They had to be community based sample of healthy women
她们都是社区中选出的健康女性
A lot of previous studies got women
过去的很多研究
from sleep disorder centers or menopause clinics
都是在睡眠障碍中心或治疗绝经的诊所进行的
where women are going because they have problems
那些地方的女性通常都有各种问题
We recruited from the community
这个研究的志愿者来自于社区
and they have to live here at least 20 years
她们在该社区至少居住了20年
speak English
能够讲英语
and be between 40 and 48
年龄在40到48岁之间
with regular cycles
生理周期正常
So what we found when we asked them
我们要求她们完成匹兹堡睡眠质量指数调查
on the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index
也就是PSQI自述型文件调查
the PSQI self-report questionnaire, has about 21 items
这个问卷调查调查了21个项目
It's about 2 pages
有2页
and it asked women about their sleep disruption
主要询问女性的睡眠中断情况
and sleep quality and quantity
以及睡眠质量的问题
