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March 3, 2012

Why Loneliness Can Be Deadly | Social Isolation & Heart Disease

Why Loneliness Can Be Deadly | Social Isolation & Heart Disease | LiveScience:


Loneliness can send a person down a path toward bad health, and even more intense loneliness, studies have shown. But while some have assumed the culprit was a dearth of others to remind a person to take care of himself or herself, new research suggests there's a direct biological link between being lonely and ill health.

Loneliness can set into a motion a barrage of negative impacts inside the human body — but with additional social contact, some of the ill effects can be stopped.

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