Loneliness was long thought to cause health conditions ranging from diabetes to cardiovascular disease, but new research paints a more nuanced picture
at Guangzhou Medical University. “Instead, socioeconomic factors, lifestyle choices and genetic predisposition might be driving risk for diseases like diabetes and heart diseases.”
To learn more about how this affects health, Zhang and his colleagues analysed data from several biomedical databases, including the medical information of 476,100 people in the UK, 16,000 in China and 14,000 in the US. They found that participants who reported feelings of loneliness were at a higher risk of 30 out of 56 individual conditions, ranging from cancers to digestive system conditions.
“To be sure, loneliness itself is highly aversive and seems to be causally associated with the emergence of depressive episodes, but in terms of the connection to health, some of the most cherished findings in the field need to be reconsidered,” says Sbarra. “It is important to understand where the causal effects might exist and where the correlations seem to exist.”
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