Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review

In a meta-analysis, Julianne Holt-Lunstad and colleagues find that individuals' social relationships have as much influence on mortality risk as other well-established risk factors for mortality, such as smoking.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2010-07-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316PMID 20668659PMCID 2910600
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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