Phillips D P, Ruth T E, Wagner L M
Department of Sociology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla 92093.
Lancet. 1993 Nov 6;342(8880):1142-5. doi: 10.1016/0140-6736(93)92124-c.
We examined the deaths of 28,169 adult Chinese-Americans, and 412,632 randomly selected, matched controls coded "white" on the death certificate. Chinese-Americans, but not whites, die significantly earlier than normal (1.3-4.9 yr) if they have a combination of disease and birthyear which Chinese astrology and medicine consider ill-fated. The more strongly a group is attached to Chinese traditions, the more years of life are lost. Our results hold for nearly all major causes of death studied. The reduction in survival cannot be completely explained by a change in the behaviour of the Chinese patient, doctor, or death-registrar, but seems to result at least partly from psychosomatic processes.
我们调查了28169名成年华裔美国人的死亡情况，并与412632名在死亡证明上编码为“白人”的随机选取的匹配对照进行了对比。如果华裔美国人患有某些疾病且出生年份符合中国占星术和医学中所谓的“凶年”，他们会比正常情况早死很多（1.3至4.9年），而白人则不然。一个群体对中国传统的依附性越强，寿命损失的年份就越多。我们的研究结果适用于几乎所有所研究的主要死因。生存率的降低不能完全用华裔患者、医生或死亡登记员行为的改变来解释，而似乎至少部分是由身心过程导致的。
