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Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review
PLoS Medicine · 2010 · Vol. 7(7) · pp. e1000316–e1000316
Julianne Holt‐Lunstad✉(Brigham Young University)Timothy B. Smith(Brigham Young University)J. Bradley Layton(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Abstract
The influence of social relationships on risk for mortality is comparable with well-established risk factors for mortality. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
Health disparities and outcomesOptimism, Hope, and Well-beingHealth, psychology, and well-beingDemographyMeta-analysisSocial determinants of healthMedicineSocial riskPublic healthGerontologyPsychologyEnvironmental healthInternal medicine
MeSH terms
Cardiovascular DiseasesCause of DeathHumansInterpersonal RelationsMortalityNeoplasmsRiskSocial Support
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