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1. Loneliness and Social Isolation as Risk Factors for Mortality

   J. Holt‐Lunstad, Timothy B. Smith, M. Baker, et al. · 2015 · Perspectives on Psychological Science · 4,402 cites

2. Loneliness, social isolation, their synergistic interaction, and mortality.

   Johannes Beller, Adina Wagner · 2018 · Health Psychology · 184 cites

3. A Prospective Study of Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Mortality in Finland

   Jussi Tanskanen, Timo Anttila · 2016 · American Journal of Public Health · 153 cites

   Objectives. To estimate the simultaneous effects of social isolation and loneliness on mortality. Methods. We analyzed a representative Finnish sample (n = 8650) from the cross-sectional Living Conditions Survey of 1994, with a 17-year follow-up period (1995–2011), by using Cox regression models adjusted for several possible confounding variables. We examined the possible nonlinear threshold effect of social isolation on mortality. Results. The analyses revealed that social isolation predicted mortality even after we controlled for loneliness and control variables. The connection between social isolation and mortality was linear in nature and there was no synergistic effect between social

4. Loneliness, social isolation, cardiovascular disease and mortality: a synthesis of the literature and conceptual framework

   S. Hodgson, Isabella Watts, S. Fraser, et al. · 2020 · Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 146 cites

   To conduct a systematic review and develop a conceptual framework on the mechanisms linking loneliness, social isolation, health outcomes and mortality. Electronic databases were systematically searched (PubMed, MEDLINE, Scopus and EMBASE) from inception to October 2018 followed by manual searching to identify research on loneliness, social isolation and mortality in adults published in the English language. Articles were assessed for quality and synthesised into a conceptual framework using meta-ethnographical approaches. A total of 122 articles were included. These collated observational designs examining mediators and moderations of the association in addition to qualitative studies explo

5. Economic gradients in loneliness, social isolation and social support: Evidence from the UK Biobank.

   Claryn S. J. Kung, S. Pudney, M. Shields · 2022 · Social science & medicine · 65 cites

   Despite the substantial literature on how loneliness is associated with poor health and premature mortality, there is little detailed research on the extent of its economic gradients. We provide this evidence using a sample of around 400,000 respondents aged 40-70 years from the UK Biobank, who were assessed between 2006 and 2010. We focus on differences in loneliness, as well as social isolation and a lack of social support, across educational attainment, household income, local area deprivation, and recent experience of financial stress. We employ two statistical approaches, the first exploiting the large sample size and detailed geographical information about where respondents live, so we

6. Loneliness, Social Isolation, and All-Cause Mortality in a Large Sample of Older Adults

   Timothy L. Barnes, Manik Ahuja, S. MacLeod, et al. · 2022 · Journal of Aging and Health · 64 cites

   Objectives Using data from a large random sample of U.S. older adults (N = 7982), the effect of loneliness and social isolation on all-cause mortality was examined considering their separate and combined effects. Methods The UCLA-3 Loneliness Scale and the Social Network Index (SNI) were used to define loneliness and social isolation. Cox proportional hazards regression models were performed. Results Among study participants, there were 548 deaths. In separate, adjusted models, loneliness (severe and moderate) and social isolation (limited and moderate social network) were both associated with all-cause mortality. When modeled together, social isolation (limited and moderate social network)

7. Affective Neuroscience of Loneliness: Potential Mechanisms underlying the Association between Perceived Social Isolation, Health, and Well-Being

   A. Finley, S. Schaefer · 2022 · Journal of psychiatry and brain science · 58 cites

   Loneliness, or the subjective feeling of social isolation, is an important social determinant of health. Loneliness is associated with poor physical health, including higher rates of cardiovascular disease and dementia, faster cognitive decline, and increased risk of mortality, as well as disruptions in mental health, including higher levels of depression, anxiety, and negative affect. Theoretical accounts suggest loneliness is a complex cognitive and emotional state characterized by increased levels of inflammation and affective disruptions. This review examines affective neuroscience research on social isolation in animals and loneliness in humans to better understand the relationship betw

8. Plasma proteomic signatures of social isolation and loneliness associated with morbidity and mortality

   Chun Shen, Ruohan Zhang, Jin-tai Yu, et al. · 2025 · Nature Human Behaviour · 56 cites

   The biology underlying the connection between social relationships and health is largely unknown. Here, leveraging data from 42,062 participants across 2,920 plasma proteins in the UK Biobank, we characterized the proteomic signatures of social isolation and loneliness through proteome-wide association study and protein co-expression network analysis. Proteins linked to these constructs were implicated in inflammation, antiviral responses and complement systems. More than half of these proteins were prospectively linked to cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke and mortality during a 14 year follow-up. Moreover, Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis suggested causal relationships fr