Long -term loneliness can increase the risk of stroke in the elderly. This is evidenced by the research data published in the journal “Eclinicalmedicine”.
Researchers from the School of Public Health. T. Kh. Chana at Harvard University studied the connection between long loneliness and the risk of stroke in the elderly.
The study used the research data of health and pension provision (HRS), prepared by the Institute of Social Research by the University of Michigan.
At the first stage, 12,161 people aged 50 years and older, who never had a stroke, were attracted to the study. The same questions in the framework of the second stage of the study were asked by another 8,936 people from the same age group after 4 years.
Thus, data were collected about whether the participants in the study of a stroke during the period under consideration.
Researchers divided the participants into 4 groups by the level of loneliness and compared their data.
The results of the study showed that those of the participants who were in the group of “constantly high” loneliness, the risk of stroke was 56 percent higher than in people in the “constantly low” group.
In the light of the study, the researchers said that the effect of loneliness on the risk of stroke can manifest itself in the long term.