主页 > 医药生命 >
【科普】打太极拳能增强免疫
-Benefit Seen in Older Adults After Taking Martial Art
By Miranda Hitti
March 29, 2007 -- Tai chi, a traditional Chinese martial art, may give older adults' immune system a boost.
That news comes from experts at UCLA and the University of California, San Diego.
They included Michael Irwin, MD, who is the Norman Cousins Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and the co-director of UCLA's Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology.
Irwin's team studied 112 healthy adults aged 59-86 (average age: 70) for about six months.
First, the researchers split participants into two groups.
One group took tai chi classes three times a week for 16 weeks. Each class lasted 40 minutes and included a set of 20 tai chi exercises.
The other group took a health education class -- with no tai chi lessons -- for the same amount of time.
Immune System Test
After the 16-week programs ended, the researchers gave all participants a single shot of Varivax, a vaccine that targets the varicella zoster virus that causes chickenpox and shingles.
Participants had already had chickenpox earlier in life. The vaccine just served as a way to test their immune systems.
Over the next nine weeks, participants periodically had their blood tested to check for antibodies against the virus.
Those who had taken the tai chi classes mounted a stronger immune system response to the vaccine than those in the health education class.
By the end of the 25-week study, the tai chi students' immune system response was nearly twice that of the health education students.
Tai Chi a Vaccine Booster?
"These are exciting findings," Irwin says in a UCLA news release. He notes that age often dims the immune system response to vaccines.
The study "suggests that tai chi is an approach that might complement and augment the efficacy of other vaccines," such as the influenza vaccine, Irwin says.
Tai chi isn't just about working your muscles. Its slow, graceful movements also have a meditative aspect. It's not clear which aspects of tai chi were most helpful to participants in the study.
The report appears in the April edition of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
SOURCES: Irwin, M. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, April 2007; vol 55: pp 511-517. News release, UCLA.
http://www.webmd.com/news/20070329/tai-chi-may-boost-immune-system 本人已认领该文编译，48小时后若未提交译文，请其他战友自由认领。 title:Tai Chi May Boost Immune System
-Benefit Seen in Older Adults After Taking Martial Art
By Miranda Hitti
标题：打太极拳可增强免疫功能——老年人打太极拳的益处
March 29, 2007 -- Tai chi, a traditional Chinese martial art, may give older adults' immune system a boost.
一种中国传统武术－太极拳，可能是老年人免疫系统的增强剂。
That news comes from experts at UCLA and the University of California, San Diego.
They included Michael Irwin, MD, who is the Norman Cousins Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and the co-director of UCLA's Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology.
这条新闻来自加州大学洛杉矶分校及圣地亚哥分校的专家，其中包括医学博士Michael Irwin，他是加州大学洛杉矶分校Semel研究院精神病学教授、Cousins中心研究精神神经免疫学的副主管。
Irwin's team studied 112 healthy adults aged 59-86 (average age: 70) for about six months.
First, the researchers split participants into two groups.One group took tai chi classes three times a week for 16 weeks. Each class lasted 40 minutes and included a set of 20 tai chi exercises.The other group took a health education class -- with no tai chi lessons -- for the same amount of time.
Irwin的团队以112个年龄在59－86岁之间的健康老年人为研究对象进行了六个月的研究。他们首先将这些老年人分为2组，其中一组每周上太极拳课3次，连续16周，每节课40分钟，包括完成一套太极拳练习；另外一组上健康教育课，没上太极拳课，两组上课时间相同。
Immune System Test
After the 16-week programs ended, the researchers gave all participants a single shot of Varivax, a vaccine that targets the varicella zoster virus that causes chickenpox and shingles.
Participants had already had chickenpox earlier in life. The vaccine just served as a way to test their immune systems.
免疫系统检测
16周结束时，研究人员让研究对象单次服用水痘病毒疫苗，这种疫苗是为了预防水痘-带状疱疹病毒感染引起水痘、带状疱疹。研究对象以往已经长过水痘。在研究中只是用疫苗来检测他们的免疫系统功能。
Over the next nine weeks, participants periodically had their blood tested to check for antibodies against the virus.Those who had taken the tai chi classes mounted a stronger immune system response to the vaccine than those in the health education class.By the end of the 25-week study, the tai chi students' immune system response was nearly twice that of the health education students.
阅读本文的人还阅读：
作者:admin@医学,生命科学 2010-12-22 05:11
医学,生命科学网