An egg a day keeps the doctor away, according to a new study out of China.

据中国的一项新研究显示，每天吃一个鸡蛋会让你远离医生。

Researchers at Peking University Health Science Center found that the simple and cheap food, once thought to raise unhealthy cholesterol levels, dramatically protects the heart.

北京大学健康科学中心的研究人员发现，这种简单廉价的食物一度被认为会引起不健康的胆固醇水平上升，但其实对心脏非常好。

They discovered that daily egg consumption is linked to 26 percent reduced stroke risk and 18 percent reduced cardiovascular disease risk.

他们发现每日吃鸡蛋与中风风险降低26%和心血管疾病风险降低18%相关。

“The present study finds that there is an association between moderate level of egg consumption (up to 1 egg/day) and a lower cardiac event rate,” lead scientists Professor Liming Li and Canqing Yu write in the journal Heart.

“目前的研究发现，中等水平的鸡蛋消耗量(高达1个蛋/日)和较低的心脏事件发生率之间存在关联，”首席科学家李明立教授和余庆青在《心脏》杂志上写道。

The researchers examined the diets of 416,000 people between the ages of 30 and 79.

研究人员检查了30至79岁之间的416,000人的饮食。

Subjects were asked how often they consumed eggs. Their health was then documented over a period of around nine years.

受访者被询问他们吃蛋的频率。然后他们的健康状况被记录下来，历时约九年。

The 13 percent of participants who ate one egg a day were found to have more than a quarter less chance of suffering from a hemorrhagic stroke, which occurs when there’s bleeding in or around the brain.

发现每天吃一个鸡蛋的参与者中，13%患出血性中风的几率减少了四分之一以上，这种情况发生在大脑或脑周围出血时。

They also had 28 percent less risk of death caused by a hemorrhagic stroke, and an 18 percent reduced chance of dying from cardiovascular disease.

他们的出血性中风造成的死亡风险降低了28%，死于心血管疾病的风险降低了18%。