How loneliness can affect your health, and what you can do to combat it, with Prof Andrea Wigfield
Instant Genius
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The Effect of Social Relationships on the Risk of Premature Death
Lonely people produce inflammation and an increase in activity in immune response. Loneliness can lead to a range of physical health conditions like heart disease, higher blood pressure, type 2 diabetes. I think there's been some links between loneliness and arthritis and even cancer. The study that you mentioned linking loneliness to smoking does tend to grab the headlines quite a lot.
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