Chronic loneliness can raise stroke risk in older adults, findings show

Chronic loneliness can raise stroke risk in older adults, findings show 
McKnights Long-Term Care News; by Kristen Fischer; 6/24/24 
A new study links loneliness to stroke risk, showing that those who are regularly lonesome have a 56% higher risk for stroke than those who are more socially connected. Situational loneliness wasn’t linked to a higher risk for stroke, which indicates that the stroke risk stems from chronic loneliness. Investigators led by a team from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health published their report Monday in eClinicalMedicine. Research has already linked loneliness to an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. The new report is one of the first to evaluate the association between loneliness and stroke risk.