Not seeing loved ones at least once a month and living alone significantly increases people’s risk of dying, academics at the University of Glasgow have found. The Guardian has more.
Using data from the U.K. Biobank study, a long-term study tracking the health and genetics of adults across the U.K., the authors looked at five different kinds of social connection reported by 458,146 people with an average age of 57 and then followed them for an average of 12.6 years. They found that each form of social isolation, such as living alone, often feeling lonely, or infrequent visits from friends or family, was linked to a higher risk of dying.
People who were never visited by friends or family were 53% more likely to die from cardiovascular disease and had a 39% increased risk of death compared with those who were visited daily. Those who lived alone were 48% more likely to die from cardiovascular disease, while not being able to confide in someone or take part in activities also increased mortality risk.
Those experiencing more than one form of social isolation were at an even higher risk. People who lived alone and never saw friends or family had a 77% higher risk of dying from any cause and an even higher risk of dying from heart disease or stroke, compared with those living with someone who saw friends or family daily, the study calculated.
But even visiting just once a month could reduce this risk, the researchers concluded. The study, published in the journal BMC Medicine, calculated that people who received friend or family visits on at least a monthly basis had a significantly lower risk of dying, suggesting that there was potentially a protective effect from this social interaction.
“The risk seems to be [among] people who are very isolated, and never ever see friends and family or see them less frequently than once a month,” said the study’s co-author Jason Gill, Professor of Cardiometabolic Health at the University of Glasgow.
“Ensuring that you visit your lonely and isolated relatives is a super helpful thing to do because it seems to be important that people have a visit at least once a month.”
The study did not examine why social isolation and loneliness increased mortality risk, but its lead author, Dr. Hamish Foster, a clinical research fellow in general practice and primary care at the University of Glasgow, said: “It could be that people who are more socially isolated may have some more unhealthy behaviours like smoking or high alcohol intake, for example.” He also suggested that not having someone to help take them to the doctor or encouraging them to seek help when needed, as well as direct biological effects on the immune system, could be factors.
The Guardian report fails to make the obvious link to the impact of lockdowns on mortality. But its sidebar does seem to be onto it, suggesting an article entitled ‘“Socially stunted”: how Covid pandemic aggravated young people’s loneliness‘ to read next.
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Perhaps the first thing we should do is to give Emily a dictionary (no pun intended…), to look up the meaning of ‘Genocide’. I’ve had enough of this shit of inflammatory terms being hijacked by damaged and vengeful people and applying them to honest people doing their best for society. Emily, if you have male genitalia, and think you are also a woman, then you appear to be uniquely able to follow my instruction. F*** yourself…
Yes, it’s literally mass murder.
Gas chamber? Machine gunning people trench in the woods? Tutsi vs Hutu with machetes? Cambodia’s killing fields? Soviet-led starvation of the holodomor? Mao’s great leap forwards?
Hyperbolic nonsense. Laugh this GUY out of here.
I think British Cycling have done pretty much the right thing, initially anyway. They might also like to change their statement about “sex assigned at birth” to say “sex observed and recorded at birth” as sex is not assigned, it’s determined at conception.
I hope the oddity mentioned by the Breeze ride organisers can also be sorted out, if it isn’t then this particular bit of madness is not yet dealt with.
Genocide – give me strength! Someone likes to be overly dramatic. It is a bit irksome to hear these whiney comments about genocide because certain people are being prevented from making use of an unfair advantage in competitive sports, or grown men with beards and dangly bits are being prevented from popping into changing rooms with teenage girls. It is even more irksome when remembering how those of us who made the very appropriate comparison between the coerced vaxxing (which is a damn sight closer to real genocide than being kept out of a cycling competition) and nazi Germany, kept getting told off for trivialising the Holocaust, when we only wished to point out the frightening road we, as a society, had embarked upon. Why are these people never called to task for their offensive trivilising of genuine genocide, something faced by the Yezidis not all that long ago.
If Ems finds British Cycling so flawed, why participate in it at all? Presumably Bridges felt BC was homophobic, bullying, etc. for some time, boycott it if it was so bad.
As for non-registered events – boycott and organise your own with a selected invitee list, it’s the only way this will stop.
Genocide – give me strength! Someone likes to be overly dramatic.
Didn’t you notice this yet? Just like calling every public display of an opposing political opinions a coup, the woketards always claim they’re a victim of genocide in case of any real world setback. The more intelligent ones do this a little more covertly, eg, all out attack on humankind instead of genocide but they don’t do it for less.
It takes part because this is the only way mediocrity can be rewarded. hence the shrill faux outrage.
Now THIS is belittling the holocaust.
I expect there will no outrage from the sanctimonious idiots who strung AB up.
For the benefit of the phantom downvoters, I’m referring to the word genocide being used to describe hurty-feelings. If AB is judged to have sinned, then so did “Emily”. But I think the latter was worse.
Do you want to comment downvoters, or just snipe from afar?
Oh dear, a mediocre cyclist who saw a chance of medals by tilting the playing field gets upset because someone got out a spirit level.
I have to give it its due, though, managing to tick so many boxes in one rant – racism, gender phobia, imaginary gender phobia, genocide, immigration – there may be others but I couldn’t stay the course.
Waahhhh! I can’t cheat anymore.
Now I’ll have to git-gud at my sport through hard work, diligent training and gumption. And all this with no guarantee that I’ll succeed in the end.
And THAT’S why we applaud successful athletes. Because it’s hard to win (unless you invite yourself into the women’s category which is cheating)
Has everyone forgotten the awful way the IOC treated Caster Semenya, only a few years ago? She was well-built and fast but absolutely all woman. She had to have a physical to prove she was a real woman. There were snide comments about her testosterone levels. I’m sure that was invasive and embarrassing for her.
Now a bloke just needs a certificate to ‘compete’ (ha!) against women.
He’s jostling for an Amnesty International humanitarian award.
These days you get a humanitarian award by accusing people of being evil. Pretty easy really.
Delusional
Let’s see. Eliminating two sexes essential for procreation and survival of the species – that’s genocide
Reinforcing the delusions of mentally disturbed people is unkind and can be dangerous.
Not my own work, but I like this….
Put 100 women and 10 men on a deserted island and in 100 years you will have a thriving community of men, women, boys and girls.
Put 100 Trans women and 10 men on a deserted island and in 100 years you will find the skeletons of 110 men.”
Those 10 men would likely have a wonderful time. Or else die from exhaustion through excessive snoo-snoo (thanks Futurama)
Motorcyclist who identifies as cyclist breaks world record.
https://youtu.be/ipvesqJP1e4
Norm Hiccup is an inspiration!
So brave. I want a T-shirt.
This is just some nonsense story designed to rouse your emotions. I would be sceptical of anyone who pushed such a stiry. I don;t care two hoots about transsexual cycle lanes. Just watch how you are manipulated.We have far bigger issues to condier.
The push of the transgender agenda is an aspect of the evil cabal’s plan. By eliminating women, they eliminate family & procreation & it also promotes that masculinity is not a good thing.
The subject is also useful to promote division as a divided society is a weakened society & easier to control.
They are fighting us on multiple fronts & it is important that we understand what they’re doing whilst not losing sight of the bigger picture.
This is from the American Medical Association, and check out the quote from the doctor. These people are a major part of the problem on the ground, just like they are/were regarding the scamdemic and death jabs. People like this doctor should have their license removed for spreading such garbage and holding these views. It’s precisely these sort of Leftie idiots that are totally fine with mutilating kids and young people’s bodies or putting them on puberty blockers, which do irreversible harm.
”Aimed at protecting individual privacy and preventing discrimination, the AMA will advocate for the removal of sex as a legal designation on the public portion of the birth certificate. Under the policy, information on an individual’s sex designation at birth would still be collected and submitted through the U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth form for medical, public health, and statistical use only. The new policy aligns with existing AMA policy recognizing that every individual has the right to determine their gender identity and sex designation on government documents.
“Designating sex on birth certificates as male or female, and making that information available on the public portion, perpetuates a view that sex designation is permanent and fails to recognize the medical spectrum of gender identity. This type of categorization system also risks stifling an individual’s self-expression and self-identification and contributes to marginalization and minoritization,” said AMA Board Chair-Elect Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, M.D.”
https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-announced-policies-adopted-final-day-special-meeting
Here is an example of the irreversible damage messing about with your sex hormones will result in. I’ve read Elle’s story of why she transitioned to male ( no surgery though, thank goodness ) and then detransitioned back. She had a traumatic experience and was also very mixed up so thought she’d be better off as a guy. The problem is that when these people often seek therapy the therapist can make things worse and supports and encourages the wish to become the opposite sex rather than focus on the mental health issues staring them in the face.
https://twitter.com/TransJusticeOrg/status/1659260913873190913?cxt=HHwWgoDQkdLA8IYuAAAA
Communist society wreckers
I’m disappointed in you all. Have you no sympathy for the mentally ill?
She/he/it needs a slap to wake up
it’s not ok for any man to compete in women’s sports
Emily?
Surely the correct spelling of this bicyclist’s name is Emile…..
The deliberate destruction of female-only sports (girls are even more at risk than grown women) will only stop when ALL females refuse to participate in any sport at any level if biological males claiming to be women are allowed to compete with them.
One of the reasons I no longer subscribe to the DT is because they continue to use biologically incorrect pronouns when reporting on this kind of nonsense.
Up to now,I’ve always been against genocide – after reading his rant, I’m thinking of reconsidering.