1 400字译述稿 Broken hips in women.doc

1请将下面一段文字译述为400字左右的汉语。 Broken hips in women By Oliver Gillie Medical Editor [1] WOMEN who have passed through the menopause should consider taking extra female hormones to prevent bone fracture, the Royal College of Physicians said yesterday. [1] 不久前，英国皇家医学院的专家们公布，绝经妇女可采用补充雌性激素疗法来预防髋部（组成骨盆的大骨）骨折。导语 [2] Its advice follows 3a two-fold increase in hip fractures in old people over the past 20 years. The increase is probably the result of changes in lifestyle, particularly a decline in the amount of exercise people take. [3]4 More than 46,000 people a year suffer hip fractures in England and Wales and about a quarter die as a result. Many more never regain full mobility. The hospital costs are about ?160m a year, the college says in a new report. [4] 2Women are most vulnerable after the age of 50 because calcium is most from bones more rapidly when female hormones decline after the menopause. Hip fractures are most common in older women; almost 60 per cent occur in women over 75. [5] Middle-aged women vary in the amount of calcium lost from their bones; one third suffer heavy losses, making them much more vulnerable to fractures. These women may be detected by screening methods which involve shining a light beam through the wrist, but this method is not widely available. [6] Dr. John Kanis, reader in human metabolism at Sheffield University, said:1 Female hormones help to prevent loss of calcium from bones. After the menopause some female hormone is still produced in body fat but thin women produce very little female hormone and so they should have hormone replacement therapy [extra female hormones]. [2] 1通过长期临床观察和大量研究，专家们发现，雌性激素有助于防止骨骼中钙质的损耗；2而50 岁左右的妇女雌性激素的分泌又越来越少， 造成了骨骼内钙质迅速损耗， 导致髋部骨折。3在过去的20年中，由于生活方式的改变和运动量的减少，英国老人中髋部骨折患者几乎增加了两倍。 4在英格兰和威尔士两地， 每年髋部骨折患者多达四余万人， 而绝大多数是绝经后妇女。原因和现象 [7] Women who have their ovaries removed surgically and women who have a premature menopause [while they are in their early 40s or younger] should have hormone replacement therapy because th