Social isolation and loneliness and their association with all-cause mortality. A population-based longitudinal study in Norway: The Tromso Study 1994-2023.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Loneliness and social isolation are associated with increased mortality, but few studies have assessed this association over long time in young adults.

Methods

The study sample comprised 9061 women and 8735 men aged 25 to 69 years who participated in the Tromsø4 survey (1994-95, baseline) of the Tromsø Study, Norway. A subset of the study sample also attended the Tromsø5 (2001), Tromsø6 (2007-08), and Tromsø7 (2015-16) surveys. Participants were followed up for all-cause mortality until November 2023; with 1630 women and 2099 men deceased. Information on social isolation (least isolated, modestly isolated, and most isolated) and loneliness (yes, no) were taken from self-administered questionnaires. Sex-specific, time-varying Cox models were employed, updating expo

SUBMITTER: Lovsletten O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11621603 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature