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Social isolation in later life can prove fatal by exacerbating health problems.
Friends and family can reduce risk of hypertension by 54%.
Study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Loneliness decreases life expectancy
05-Jan-2016
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Kathleen Mullan Harris
James E. Haar Professor at Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Multidisciplinary scientific journal, official journal of the National Academy of Sciences
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