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出典： The New York Times Q: What is the link between heart disease and depression ? Is a person with depression more likely to develop heart disease? depression … 鬱病 A: A person with depression is at higher risk for heart disease, and a person with heart disease is at higher risk for depression. The link between the two diseases is complex and not entirely understood. Many of the effects of depression — feeling unable to exercise or eat properly, for example — and the behaviors associated with depression, like smoking and abusing alcohol , are well established risk factors for heart disease. Some studies have suggested that insomnia , another symptom of depression, may also increase the risk for cardiovascular illness. abusing alcohol … アルコール乱用、アルコール依存 insomnia … 不眠症 cardiovascular … 心臓血管の Depression can also make heart disease worse. Heart patients with depression may find it more difficult to take medications and comply with the behavioral demands of living with h...

出典： TIME An unusual case illustrates how promiscuous DNA can be. It turns out we have a lot of DNA that isn’t our own promiscuous … ごたまぜの、入り混じった、無差別な Paternity tests are well known for producing some unexpected surprises, but the case involving a Washington man presents a new head-scratcher . After undergoing fertility treatments and having a son, the man and his partner were surprised when blood work showed that the boy couldn’t be related to the father. After two paternity tests showed the father only shared 10% of his child’s DNA, the parents feared the fertility clinic had inseminated the mother with another man’s sperm. head-scratcher … 難問、難題 fertility treatment … 不妊治療 blood work … 血液検査 inseminate … 精液を注入する、受精させる The couple hired a lawyer, who wrote in to Barry Starr’s Ask a Geneticist blog. Starr, director of outreach activities at Stanford University’s Department of Genetics, suggested that the couple get a 23andMe analysis done. The consumer-based genetic ...