ArticleBMC geriatrics2020
Cardiovascular and all-cause mortality attributable to loneliness in older Swedish men and women.
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- Loneliness, social isolation, and living alone: a comprehensive systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression of mortality risks in older adults.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2025Pooled it
- The impact of social isolation and loneliness on cardiovascular disease risk factors: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and bibliometric investigation.Scientific reports · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of 90 cohort studies of social isolation, loneliness and mortality.Nature human behaviour · 2023Pooled it
- Association of social isolation and loneliness with incident cardiovascular diseases: results from a nationally prospective cohorts in China.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- The societal cost of 'unwanted' loneliness in Spain.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2025Article
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- Influence of loneliness burden on cardio-cerebral vascular disease among the Chinese older adult: a national cohort study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Six-year mortality associated with living alone and loneliness in Swedish men and women born in 1930.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- Loneliness, social isolation and ageing: a methodological approach to compare Latvian and Icelandic older populations in the course of COVID-19 pandemic.Research square · 2023Article
- Loneliness, social network size and mortality in older adults: a meta-analysis.European journal of ageing · 2022Review
- Living arrangement modifies the associations of loneliness with adverse health outcomes in older adults: evidence from the CLHLS.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
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- Loneliness and Risk for Cardiovascular Disease: Mechanisms and Future Directions.Current cardiology reports · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundThis study examined whether loneliness predicts cardiovascular- and all-cause mortality in older men and women.
methodsBaseline data from the Gothenburg H70 Birth Cohort Studies, collected during 2000 on 70-year-olds born 1930 and living in Gothenburg were used for analysis (n = 524). Mortality data were analyzed until 2012 through Swedish national registers.
resultsPerceived loneliness was reported by 17.1% of the men and 30.9% of the women in a face-to-face interview with mental health professional. A total of 142 participants died during the 12-year follow-up period, with 5334 person-years at risk, corresponding to 26.6 deaths/1000 person-years. Cardiovascular disease accounted for 59.2% of all deaths. The cumulative rates/1000 person-years for cardiovascular mortality were 20.8 (men) and 11.5 (women), and for all-cause mortality 33.8 (men) and 20.5 (women), respectively. In Cox regression models, no significant increased risk of mortality was seen for men with loneliness compared to men without loneliness (cardiovascular mortality HR 1.52, 95% CI 0.78-2.96; all-cause HR 1.32, 95% CI 0.77-2.28). Increased risk of cardiovascular mortality was observed in women with loneliness compared to those without (HR 2.25 95% CI 1.14-4.45), and the risk remained significant in a multivariable-adjusted model (HR 2.42 95% CI 1.04-5.65).
conclusionsLoneliness was shown to be an independent predictor of cardiovascular mortality in women. We found no evidence to indicate that loneliness was associated with an increased risk of either cardiovascular- or all-cause mortality in men.
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