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Health
In 2010, a Brigham Young University psychologist named Julianne Holt-Lunstad analyzed 148 separate studies of 300,000 people to compare the mortality risks of various lifestyle factors — and found that chronic loneliness increases a person's risk of dying
Recent reports link the strength of social connections to long-term health outcomes, citing foundational research on the impact of chronic loneliness.