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ArticleHeart (British Cardiac Society)2016

Loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for CVD: implications for evidence-based patient care and scientific inquiry.

Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Timothy B Smith

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Article in Heart (British Cardiac Society), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 101 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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101citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

101 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Are social isolation, lack of social support or loneliness risk factors for cardiovascular disease in Australia and New Zealand? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2022
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  19. Social Isolation and Hospitalization in Community-Dwelling Older Adults by Dementia Status.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Julianne Holt-LunstadDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
Timothy B SmithDepartment of Counseling Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

LonelinessSocial IsolationHumansPatient CareRisk Factors

Identifiers

PMID27091845
PMCPMC4941164

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