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Science Women with lonely hearts risk diseased hearts | Women with lonely hearts risk diseased hearts |
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| by William Atkins | |
| Monday, 24 August 2009 | |
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Science DiscussionsThe lead researcher in the study is Dr. Rebecca C. Thurston, an assistant professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at the Magee-Womens Research Institute, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Thurston and Laura D. Kubzansky, a researcher from Harvard School of Public Health, looked at 3,003 men and women who were 19 years of age at the start of the study. All participants were given a complete physical exam at the beginning of the study, along with an interview that asked questions about depression, loneliness, and isolation. Over the next few years, the participants were studied with respect to the health of their hearts. The two researchers concluded that the women who were the loneliest at the beginning of the study had a 79% more likely chance to develop heart disease than women who were not lonely. The study found that feelings of loneliness, especially feeling socially isolated, and depression in women, leads to stress, which can lead to heart disease. The study only found this relationship among women, not men. Page two concludes. |
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