Smith Gary
Department of Economics, Pomona College, Claremont, CA 91711, USA.
Health Psychol. 2006 Jan;25(1):124-9. doi: 10.1037/0278-6133.25.1.124.
D. P. Phillips, T. E. Ruth, and L. M. Wagner (1993) reported that 1969-1990 California mortality data show that Chinese Americans are particularly vulnerable to diseases that Chinese astrology and traditional Chinese medicine associate with their birth years. For example, because fire is associated with the heart, a Chinese person born in a fire year (such as 1937) is more likely to die of heart disease than is a Chinese person born in a nonfire year. However, many diseases were excluded from this study, some diseases that were included have ambiguous links to birth years, and the statistical tests were indirect. A more complete statistical analysis and independent California mortality data for the years 1960-1968 and 1991-2002 did not replicate the original results.
D.P.菲利普斯、T.E.鲁思和L.M.瓦格纳（1993年）报告称，1969年至1990年加利福尼亚州的死亡率数据显示，美籍华人特别容易患上中国占星术和传统中医认为与他们出生年份相关的疾病。例如，由于火与心脏相关，出生在火年（如1937年）的中国人死于心脏病的可能性比出生在非火年的中国人更高。然而，这项研究排除了许多疾病，一些纳入研究的疾病与出生年份的联系并不明确，而且统计测试是间接的。对1960年至1968年以及1991年至2002年更完整的统计分析和独立的加利福尼亚州死亡率数据并未重现最初的结果。
