Loneliness and cardiovascular disease and the role of late-life depression.

Annette HegemanNatasja SchutterHannie ComijsTjalling HolwerdaJack DekkerMax StekRoos van der Mast

Published in: International journal of geriatric psychiatry (2017)

For women only, there was an association between loneliness and cardiovascular disease. However, this association was explained by depression, indicating that loneliness in its own right seems not related with cardiovascular disease. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Keyphrases

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