Luo, Ye; Hawkley, Louise C.; Waite, Linda J.; Cacioppo, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 6, pp. 907-914
This study examined the relationship between loneliness, health, and mortality using a U.S. nationally representative sample of 2101 adults aged 50 years and over from the 2002 to 2008 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. We estimated the effect of loneliness at one point on mortality over...