NEW YORK, June 24 (UPI) --Chronic loneliness may greatly increase the risk of stroke in older adults, a new Harvard study shows. The study, led by the T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, was ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Participants who were considered lonely at baseline had a 25% increased risk for stroke. This risk increased to ...

(CNN) — Lonely isn’t just how many people are around – it’s how you feel. And it may impact your stroke risk, according to a new study. In fact, older adults who reported being chronically lonely had ...

Chronic loneliness may significantly raise older adults' risk of stroke, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Loneliness is increasingly considered a major public ...

Middle-age and older adults with long-term loneliness are at higher risk of stroke than those who do not report being lonely, according to a new study published in the journal eClinicalMedicine on ...

Loneliness and isolation among older Americans have mostly returned to pre-pandemic rates, but that still means more than one third of people age 50 to 80 feel lonely, and nearly as many feel isolated ...

Loneliness was declared a public health epidemic just two years ago, with then-U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy citing links to increased risk of heart disease, depression, cognitive decline, ...

The self-stigma of loneliness can directly affect psychological distress in older people and may indirectly influence people if they feel like they’re at a disadvantage. Positive solitude somewhat ...

Two large studies involving Chinese older adults found strong links between loneliness, frailty and difficulty performing everyday tasks — with frailty appearing to act as a bridge in this ...