An unexpected discovery
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This discovery affects lonely people.
He study analyzed data from 12,161 participants between 2006 and 2008. All were adults over 50 years old who never had a heart attack. heart and answered a questionnaire from the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale.
Four years later, the 8,936 participants who remained in the study They answered the questionnaire again, which explores the connection that people have with those around them, and how lonely they feel.
Then they divided the people into four groups: those who felt lonely at the beginning and then felt less lonely (remitters), those who felt a little lonely at the beginning and then became lonely (recent onset), those who felt and continued to feel lonely (consistently high), and those who did not feel lonely they felt and continued not to feel alone (consistently low).
Among the participants who participated in both stages of the study 601 were registered strokes until 2018. The study of these events demonstrated a link between loneliness and an increased risk of heart attacks.
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The most affected group is those who consistently felt lonely, as they were 56 percent more likely to suffer an attack than those who did not feel lonely.
What the discovery means
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Loneliness leads to more strokes.
The main author of the study Yenee Soh explained that “loneliness is increasingly considered a major public health problem. Our findings further highlight why this is the case.”
“When experienced chronically, our study suggests that loneliness may play an important role in the incidence of strokeswhich is already one of the main causes of long-term disability and mortality worldwide,” he noted.
In the future, having public policies against loneliness could help discover who are most at risk of strokes.
