During the past decades a rising trend of living alone can be observed in the population especially in urban areas. Living alone is considered a psychosocial risk factor. We studied the relationship between living alone, cardiovascular risk factors and mortality.
GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Ingolstädter Landstr, 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany,. ulla.kandler@gsf.de
