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[jadegil6]

For some women, a lonely heart may lead to actual heart damage.

A new study has linked feeling forlorn to a nearly 80 percent increase in the risk of heart disease — but only in women.
Other studies have shown that depressed and socially isolated people are at a greater risk for developing heart disease, said the study’s lead author Rebecca C. Thurston, an assistant professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Both of these factors can lead to stress, which can ultimately lead to heart disease. But in a new study published in Psychosomatic Medicine, Thurston found the loneliness link even after accounting for the women’s level of depression and sociability.

Thurston wanted to focus on loneliness because it’s an especially negative and distressing emotion that many people experience.
“I was particularly intrigued by the documented findings that people can feel lonely despite having many people in their lives,” she said. “When it comes to loneliness, it’s not just how many friends you have, but also how supported you feel. You can have a lot of people around you and still feel lonely.”
People feel lonely when they don’t have a sense of connectedness with their friends and families, experts say
Loneliness is related to how fulfilled we feel in our relationships,” said Brooke Aggarwal, a researcher in preventive cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital. “We experience feelings of loneliness when we feel that what we’re getting from our relationships falls short of what we expect.”

Thurston and a colleague from the Harvard School of Public Health scrutinized 19 years of data from more than 3,000 men and women collected as part of a major ongoing health and nutrition survey.
At the beginning of the survey period, everyone had a comprehensive physical examination and an extensive in-person interview that included questions about loneliness. In the years that followed, the researchers tracked heart health in the participants.
Thurston looked back over the years and found that the loneliest women at the start ended up 76 percent more likely than the other women to develop heart disease.

She suspects that the link showed up only in women because they tend to be more concerned about relationship quality than men. Women also tend to be more distressed when relationships with spouses and friends aren’t as close as they hoped, she said.
The new findings fall in line with other research showing that while any type of marriage can protect a man’s heart, a bad marriage can be harmful for a woman’s health, Thurston said.
Aggarwal said she hopes the new study may remind physicians to consider mental and emotional health when they evaluate and treat patients for heart disease risk.

[cutegen]

im sad for this news...i think i have the most highest risk to have this decease..because i always feel lonely and neglected......hehehe

[m&m]

For some women, a lonely heart may lead to actual heart damage.

A new study has linked feeling forlorn to a nearly 80 percent increase in the risk of heart disease — but only in women.
Other studies have shown that depressed and socially isolated people are at a greater risk for developing heart disease, said the study’s lead author Rebecca C. Thurston, an assistant professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Both of these factors can lead to stress, which can ultimately lead to heart disease. But in a new study published in Psychosomatic Medicine, Thurston found the loneliness link even after accounting for the women’s level of depression and sociability.

Thurston wanted to focus on loneliness because it’s an especially negative and distressing emotion that many people experience.
“I was particularly intrigued by the documented findings that people can feel lonely despite having many people in their lives,” she said. “When it comes to loneliness, it’s not just how many friends you have, but also how supported you feel. You can have a lot of people around you and still feel lonely.”
People feel lonely when they don’t have a sense of connectedness with their friends and families, experts say
Loneliness is related to how fulfilled we feel in our relationships,” said Brooke Aggarwal, a researcher in preventive cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital. “We experience feelings of loneliness when we feel that what we’re getting from our relationships falls short of what we expect.”

Thurston and a colleague from the Harvard School of Public Health scrutinized 19 years of data from more than 3,000 men and women collected as part of a major ongoing health and nutrition survey.
At the beginning of the survey period, everyone had a comprehensive physical examination and an extensive in-person interview that included questions about loneliness. In the years that followed, the researchers tracked heart health in the participants.
Thurston looked back over the years and found that the loneliest women at the start ended up 76 percent more likely than the other women to develop heart disease.

She suspects that the link showed up only in women because they tend to be more concerned about relationship quality than men. Women also tend to be more distressed when relationships with spouses and friends aren’t as close as they hoped, she said.
The new findings fall in line with other research showing that while any type of marriage can protect a man’s heart, a bad marriage can be harmful for a woman’s health, Thurston said.
Aggarwal said she hopes the new study may remind physicians to consider mental and emotional health when they evaluate and treat patients for heart disease risk.

Thank you for the information. Indeed, women are weaker vessel. They struggle with their emotion.

[tom]

im sad for this news...i think i have the most highest risk to have this decease..because i always feel lonely and neglected......hehehe

hmmmm... methinks this another good reason for us all to rejoice with cutegen... (and chaychay, too )... hearing the good news of their newfound relationships of love

[purex]

im sad for this news...i think i have the most highest risk to have this decease..because i always feel lonely and neglected......hehehe

hmmmm... methinks this another good reason for us all to rejoice with cutegen... (and chaychay, too )... hearing the good news of their newfound relationships of love

I wish you all the blessings and joy in your relationships.

[Mr.Magoo]

I read an article online recently that said there have been many studies concerning the health of married couples as opposed to unmarried people. And it said that in all of the studies the married couples were much healthier, and lived longer lives than the unmarried people in those studies. But there was one thing that was discovered that went against this general finding, and that was that if the married couple were in a bad relationship, then their health was worse than the unmaried people in the studies. A bad relationship causes many health problems, so it is better to stay single than to marry the wrong person.

[purex]

I read an article online recently that said there have been many studies concerning the health of married couples as opposed to unmarried people. And it said that in all of the studies the married couples were much healthier, and lived longer lives than the unmarried people in those studies. But there was one thing that was discovered that went against this general finding, and that was that if the married couple were in a bad relationship, then their health was worse than the unmaried people in the studies. A bad relationship causes many health problems, so it is better to stay single than to marry the wrong person.

Marriage is for a lifetime, better think amillion times.

[Edwin]

Speaking of loneliness, my Dad told me years ago about an old guy who lived alone here on this hill. You would think that he would have been very lonely here by himself without anyone for miles around, but it was his place, and he had his animals to keep him company as well as his garden, and everything else on a small farm.

My Dad saw him in town where there were people coming and going like bees in a bee hive. He told my Dad that he felt really lonely there, and he just had to get back home so that he would not feel so lonely. There were lots of people in town, but he didn't feel connected with any of them, and he didn't feel like they cared, which made since because these people didn't know him, and probably didn't care whether they smiled, spoke to him, or any other kind of recognition, whereas on his farm his animals liked him.