Loneliness

Social isolation and loneliness were linked to an increased risk for all-cause and cause-specific types of mortality, according to a recent systematic review and meta-analysis published in Nature Human Behavior.

Among people with diabetes, higher loneliness scores, but not isolation scores, were associated with greater risk for CVD, suggesting the quality but not quantity of relationships can impact disease risk, researchers reported.

INDIANAPOLIS — Sleep duration, latencies and loneliness were associated with problematic drinking among college students with and without substance use disorder in 2020.

Loneliness frequently plays an important mental health role for women who experience perinatal depression, according to a meta-synthesis published in BMC Psychiatry.

During the pandemic, digital communication technology was associated with anxiety in older adults, while in-person communication was linked to fewer feelings of depression and loneliness, data in the Journal of Applied Gerontology showed.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, loneliness, family conflict and difficultly accessing health care raised the risk for first-time and recurrent depression among older adults with asthma, according to a study published in Respiratory Medicine.

Self-reported social isolation and loneliness could indicate increased risk for incident HF, according to research published in JACC: Heart Failure.

The gap in quality of life between men and women with HF may be explained by the interaction between biological and psychosocial factors, according to a study published in ESC Heart Failure.

Animal therapy and technological interventions in long-term care facilities were shown to improve loneliness in older adults, a systematic review published in JAMA Network Open showed.

Recent data from the American Heart Association show social isolation and loneliness are associated with a 29% increased risk for MI and/or CV death and a 32% increased risk for stroke and stroke death.