Improvement of Social Isolation and Loneliness and Excess Mortality Risk in People With Obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Individuals with obesity experience markedly higher levels of social isolation and loneliness than those without obesity, but little is known about whether improvement of social isolation or loneliness might attenuate obesity-related excess risk of mortality.

Objective

To investigate whether improvement of social isolation or loneliness is associated with lower obesity-related excess risk of mortality.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study included individuals without cancer or cardiovascular disease (CVD) at baseline from the UK Biobank with follow-up beginning in March 2006 and ending in November 2021.

Main outcomes and measures

All-cause, cancer-related, and CVD-related mortality were estimated.

Results

A total of 398 972 part

SUBMITTER: Zhou J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10804268 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature