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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Social networks, host resistance, and mortality: A nine-year follow-up study of alameda county residents
American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 109, No. 2, Year 1979
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Description
The relationship between social and community ties and mortality was assessed using the 1965 Human Population Laboratory survey of a random sample of 6928 adults in Alameda County, California and a subsequent nine-year mortality follow-up. The findings show that people who lacked social and community ties were more likely to die in the follow-up period than those with more extensive contacts. The age-adjusted relative risks for those most Isolated when compared to those with the most social contacts were 2.3 for men and 2.8 for women. The association between social ties and mortality was found to be independent of self-reported physical health status at the time of the 1965 survey, year of death, socioeconomic status, and health practices such as smoking, alcoholic beverage consumption, obesity, physical activity, and utilization of preventive health services as well as a cumulative index of health practices. © 1979 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Authors & Co-Authors
Berkman, Lisa F.
United States, New Haven
Yale University
Statistics
Citations: 3,729
Authors: 1
Affiliations: 2
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a112674
ISSN:
00029262
Research Areas
Noncommunicable Diseases
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Cohort Study
Study Approach
Quantitative
Participants Gender
Male
Female