Social isolation: a predictor of mortality comparable to traditional clinical risk factors.

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Abstract

We explored the relationship between social isolation and mortality in a nationally representative US sample and compared the predictive power of social isolation with that of traditional clinical risk factors.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Am J Public Health

Title: American journal of public health

ISSN (Electronic): 1541-0048

ISSN (Print): 0090-0036

Publication date (Electronic): Nov 2013

Volume: 103

Issue: 11

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[1 ] At the time of the study, Matthew Pantell was with the University of California, Berkeley-University of California, San Francisco Joint Medical Program, San Francisco. David Rehkopf is with the Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA. Douglas Jutte and S. Leonard Syme are with the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. John Balmes is with the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, and the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Nancy Adler is with the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.

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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301261

PubMed ID: 24028260

SO-VID: 3e63900b-8654-41e3-9b68-22bfa0398f1a

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