撰文/播音：埃丽卡·贝拉斯(Erika Beras)
翻译：郭鑫鹏
审校：丁可含
Babies benefit from breast-feeding-they have a lower risk of infections, vomiting and diarrhea and less of a chance of later developing adult onset diabetes. And now a study finds that being breast-fed helps protect infants who are genetically predisposed to be at risk for asthma. The work was recently presented at the European Respiratory Society’s International Congress in London. [Olga Gorlanova et al., Interaction of 17921 variants with breast-feeding in relation to respiratory symptoms in infancy]
婴儿通过母乳喂养有很多好处，他们得传染病、呕吐和腹泻的风险会降低，并且随后患成年型糖尿病的几率降低。研究发现，母乳喂养有助于降低婴儿患遗传性哮喘的概率。这项研究在伦敦举办的欧洲呼吸学会国际会议上发表。
Researchers collected data about 368 Swiss infants-such as the frequency and intensity of respiratory symptoms. They also tracked whether the infants were breast-fed. And they performed genomic analysis of the children.
研究者们收集了368个瑞士婴儿的数据，其中包括呼吸的频率和强度，他们同时记录了这些婴儿是否为母乳喂养，最后他们对这些孩子进行了基因组分析。
The results: infants carrying genes that put them at increased risk for asthma had a 27-percent decrease in developing respiratory symptoms while being breast-fed. The same children showed a trend toward the risk going back up when they were not being breast-fed.
结果表明，基因上存在高哮喘风险的婴儿如果是母乳喂养，他们出现呼吸系统症状的几率会降低27%。但当停止对这些婴儿的母乳喂养后，他们的患病风险出现回升态势。
The study sheds light on the interactions between genes and the environment when it comes to asthma. The researchers note that they need to replicate the study in another group of infants to see if the findings hold. But if further work has a similar outcome, it could lead to better ways to let affected individuals breathe easier.
研究中我们可以看到，对于哮喘病，环境因素和基因因素对人的交互影响。研究者们指出他们会在另一组婴儿身上重复实验以便确认结果是否可靠。如果进一步的研究得到了相近的结果，那么这将会是帮助那些受影响的人更好的方法。
-Erika Beras
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