More than a feeling? Social isolation, loneliness linked to a higher heart failure risk -

Overall, the team found, there were nearly 13,000 reported cases of heart failure among the study’s participants over 12.3 years of follow-up. Social isolation and loneliness both increased a participant’s risk of heart failure by up to 20%. This was true no matter what the person’s genetic heart failure risk may have been at the time. “We shall pay more attention to those individuals feeling...