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      Association of loneliness with all-cause mortality: A meta-analysis

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          Abstract

          Introduction

          Loneliness has social and health implications. The aim of this article is to evaluate the association of loneliness with all-cause mortality.

          Methods

          Pubmed, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Scopus databases were searched through June 2016 for published articles that measured loneliness and mortality. The main characteristics and the effect size values of each article were extracted. Moreover, an evaluation of the quality of the articles included was also carried out. A meta-analysis was performed firstly with all the included articles and secondly separating by gender, using a random effects model.

          Results

          A total of 35 articles involving 77220 participants were included in the systematic review. Loneliness is a risk factor for all-cause mortality [pooled HR = 1.22, 95% CI = (1.10, 1.35), p < 0.001] for both genders together, and for women [pooled HR = 1.26, 95% CI = (1.07, 1.48); p = 0.005] and men [pooled HR = 1.44; 95% CI = (1.19, 1.76); p < 0.001] separately.

          Conclusions

          Loneliness shows a harmful effect for all-cause mortality and this effect is slightly stronger in men than in women. Moreover, the impact of loneliness was independent from the quality evaluation of each article and the effect of depression.

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                Contributors
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
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                Journal
                PLoS One
                PLoS ONE
                plos
                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                4 January 2018
                2018
                : 13
                : 1
                : e0190033
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Department of Psychiatry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
                [2 ] Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain
                [3 ] Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS-Princesa), Madrid, Spain
                Jerusalem Institute of Aging Research, ISRAEL
                Author notes

                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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                http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3252-854X
                Article
                PONE-D-16-49272
                10.1371/journal.pone.0190033
                5754055
                29300743
                b71f28f2-eb37-4dfa-b4ae-da81a417fbef
                © 2018 Rico-Uribe et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 13 December 2016
                : 8 December 2017
                Page count
                Figures: 5, Tables: 3, Pages: 21
                Funding
                Funded by: European Commission Horizon 2020 (ATHLOS)
                Award ID: 635316
                Funded by: Instituto de Salud Carlos III-FIS
                Award ID: PI13/00059
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: European Union European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) “A Way to Build Europe”
                Award ID: PI13/00059
                Funded by: "Contratos predoctorales para Formación de Personal Investigador, FPI-UAM", Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: "Contratos predoctorales para Formación de Personal Investigador, FPI-UAM", Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III
                The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Commission Horizon 2020 under the project Ageing Trajectories of Health: Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies with the grant number 635316 ( http://athlosproject.eu), and from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III-FIS research grant number PI13/00059 ( http://edadconsalud.com). The project PI13/00059 has been co-funded by the European Union European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) “A Way to Build Europe”. Laura Rico and Natalia Martín-María are supported by the program "Contratos predoctorales para Formación de Personal Investigador, FPI-UAM", Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain ( https://www.uam.es/ss/Satellite/es/1242648594098/1242695570937/becainvestigacion/becaInvestig/Convocatoria_de_Contratos_Predoctorales_para_Formacion_de_Personal_Investigador_2016_(FPI-UAM.htm). The work was supported by the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III ( http://www.cibersam.es). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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