医学英语写作与翻译－讨论与致谢.pptVIP

讨论部分的内容与写法 Follow the guidelines below for writing a good discussion section: ? Describe the results of the current study in the past tense and the known or proved facts in the present tense. ? Do not simply repeat what you have already said in the Results section; try to present the principles, relationships, generalizations shown by the results obtained. ? Assess the validity of the results. ? Show how your results and interpretations agree(or contrast) with the previously published work. ? Discuss any results that do not “fit in” ; do not try to hide them or to “fudge” the data. ? Explain the significance of the results; comment on their theoretical and practical implications. ? State your conclusions as clearly as possible, and summarize your evidence for each one. ? Point out possible lines of further study. 讨论部分的内容与写法实例 Discussion Our large epidemiological study of the distribution of H pylori prevalence among families used a different approach from that used in other studies addressing the same topic. It was designed as a population study, and all the consenting residents of a small town were involved, thus avoiding the biases that previous studies on selected series could have had. We studied all the consenting families in one community, representing a valuable sample (66%) of the entire population. Infection of children could be related directly to parents positivity and familys social background. The overall prevalence of H pylori infection differed according to age, and within children aged 12-16 years the prevalence of infection was similar to that found in a population based study performed in San Marino, an area not far from Campogalliano, but different from other reported values. The prevalence of H pylori infection in children was, for example, 40% in Saudi Arabia, 60% in India, and only 10% 415% in the United States. This is probably related both to the different age groups considered (5410 years, 3410 years, and 3-5 years, in the th