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People with severe headaches, whether migraines or not, may be more likely to attempt suicide, according to a U.S. study of more than a thousand people.
美國一項針對逾1000人的研究發現，患有嚴重頭痛者，不管是否為偏頭痛，可能較易企圖自殺。
A number of studies over the years have found that people with migraines tend to have a higher suicide rate than those without, but it has not been clear if this is related specifically to the "biology of migraines," said Naomi Breslau of Michigan State University at East Lansing, who led the study.
位在東南辛市的密西根州立大學的研究領導者布瑞斯勞表示，歷年來多項研究發現，偏頭痛者自殺率較無偏頭痛者高，但不清楚這是否與「偏頭痛生理因素」有特別相關。
The study followed nearly 1,200 Detroit, Michigan-area adults. About 500 of them were migraine sufferers, while 151 had severe headaches that were not migraines. The rest were free of serious headaches and served as a comparison group. In this study, severe non-migraines were defined as intense headache lasting more than four hours.
研究追蹤密西根州底特律地區近1200名成年人，其中約500人為偏頭痛患者，151人有非偏頭痛的嚴重頭痛，其餘是沒有嚴重頭痛的對照組。在這項研究中，非偏頭痛的嚴重頭痛定義為劇烈頭痛持續逾4小時。
Over two years, the migraine and severe-headache groups had similar rates of attempted suicide. Almost nine percent of migraine sufferers said they’d tried to kill themselves, as did 10 percent of those with severe non-migraine headaches. That compared with a rate of just over one percent in the comparison group. （Reuters）
2年間，偏頭痛與嚴重頭痛組企圖自殺的比率不相上下。有近9％的偏頭痛病患表示曾試圖自殺，嚴重頭痛的非偏頭痛病患則有10％。對照組想輕生的比率僅逾1％。（路透）
新聞辭典
attemp：名詞，嘗試。例句：This is my second attempt at the exam.（這是我第二次嘗試這個考試。）
tend：動詞，傾向，照顧 。例句：Would you mind waiting? I’m tending to another customer at the moment.（您介意等候嗎？我正在招呼另一位顧客。）
relate：動詞，有關，使有聯繫。例句：Researchers are trying to relate low exam results to large class sizes.（研究人員試著將考試低分的原因與班級人數多相連。）
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