Maybe Isolation, Not Loneliness, Shortens Life

NPR:

Loneliness hurts, but social isolation can kill you. That's the conclusion of a study of more than 6,500 people in the U.K.

The study, by a team at University College London, comes after decades of research showing that both loneliness and infrequent contact with friends and family can, independently, shorten a person's life. The scientists expected to find that the combination of these two risk factors would be especially dangerous.

Read the whole story at NPR

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/26/maybe-isolation-not-lonel_n_2956840.html

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