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lifeskim:mentions | |
pubmed:issue |
4
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pubmed:dateCreated |
1994-2-10
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pubmed:abstractText |
Identical measures of social ties obtained from three community-based cohorts aged 65 and over from East Boston, MA; New Haven, CT; and two rural counties in Iowa permit the first direct cross-community comparison of the hypothesis that social isolation increases 5-year mortality risks (1982 to 1987) for older men and women. In sex-specific proportional hazards analyses, social ties were significantly and inversely related to mortality independently of age in all three cohorts (e.g., relative hazard (RH) = 1.97 to 3.06 for men and women, comparing those with no ties to those with four types of ties). After controlling for age, pack-years of smoking, body mass, chronic conditions, angina, and physical and cognitive disability, social ties remain significant predictors of mortality risk for the men and women in New Haven (RH = 2.4 and 1.8) and for women in Iowa (RH = 1.9). For the men in Iowa (RH = 1.4) and the men and women in East Boston (RH = 1.0 and 1.3), the associations are weaker and nonsignificant.
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pubmed:grant | |
pubmed:commentsCorrections | |
pubmed:language |
eng
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pubmed:journal | |
pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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pubmed:month |
Jul
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pubmed:issn |
1047-2797
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pubmed:author | |
pubmed:issnType |
Print
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pubmed:volume |
3
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pubmed:owner |
NLM
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pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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pubmed:pagination |
325-35
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pubmed:dateRevised |
2008-6-23
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pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:8275207-Aged,
pubmed-meshheading:8275207-Body Constitution,
pubmed-meshheading:8275207-Female,
pubmed-meshheading:8275207-Health Status,
pubmed-meshheading:8275207-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:8275207-Interpersonal Relations,
pubmed-meshheading:8275207-Longitudinal Studies,
pubmed-meshheading:8275207-Male,
pubmed-meshheading:8275207-Marriage,
pubmed-meshheading:8275207-Mortality,
pubmed-meshheading:8275207-Risk Factors,
pubmed-meshheading:8275207-Smoking,
pubmed-meshheading:8275207-Social Support
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pubmed:year |
1993
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pubmed:articleTitle |
Intercommunity variations in the association between social ties and mortality in the elderly. A comparative analysis of three communities.
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pubmed:affiliation |
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510.
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pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Comparative Study,
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.,
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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