Feel young at heart and you'll enjoy a longer life

研究发现：心态年轻的人寿命更长

Feel young at heart and you'll enjoy a longer life, study says

Age-liars and birthday-deniers... you'd best learn a thing or two from those who are young at heart. People who feel younger than their actual chronological age may live longer than those who feel older than they truly are, a new study says.

谎报年龄、否认生日……想要变得年轻,那么你最好试着学学那些拥有年轻心态的人.一项新的研究称,那些自我感觉比实际年龄小的人可能比那些自我感觉比实际年龄大的人更加长寿.

Perceived age might play a role in more than just how you feel. Results from the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggest that people who feel a year or more older than they truly are could have around 41 percent greater risk for death.

感知年龄所起到的作用可能远远不止于你的感觉如何.从《美国医学协会杂志》（The Journal of the American Medical Association）的研究结果来看,那些感觉自己比实际年龄大一岁或好几岁的人会比一般人高出近41%的死亡风险.

University College London researchers looked at nearly 6,500 older adults, with an average age of 65.8 for the study. Around 70 percent of the subjects felt younger than they were, about a quarter felt their precise age and just under 5 percent felt a year or more older than they were, when asked "How old do you feel you are?"

伦敦大学学院(University College London)的研究人员调查了近6500名平均年龄为65.8岁的老年人.在回答"您感觉自己年龄有多大？"这个问题上,当中大约70%的老年人觉得自己比实际年龄小,约25%的人认为自己符合实际年龄,而只有不到5%的人认为自己比实际年龄大一岁或好几岁.

Those who felt older than they were had a higher death rate after a follow-up period of 99 months. While just 14.3 and 18.5 percent of people who felt younger or felt their age, respectively, died during those 99 months, 24.6 percent of those who felt aged beyond their years had died.

那些觉得自己年龄比实际大的人在接下来的99个月的随访期中死亡的可能性更高.而那些心态年轻以及心态岁数和实际年龄相当的人在接下来的99个月中的死亡可能性分别只有14.3%和18.5%,而那些觉得自己比实际年纪大的人有24.6%已经在这99个月中死亡.