Social isolation, loneliness, and all-cause mortality in older men and women

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 5797-5801

  Steptoe, Andrew ^a   Shankar, Aparna ^a   Demakakos, Panayotes ^a   Wardle, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; WELLBEING;

AGED; AGING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 84876069781     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1219686110     Document Type: Article

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