Recent research published by the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago indicates that loneliness could be directly tied to high systolic blood pressure in some older Americans.
The study involved 229 participants aged 50-68 years from Illinois. Even after accounting for other factors, such as access to medical services, demographic variables and psychological factors, loneliness was shown to be linked to increases as great as 30 points systolic. For instance, the scale the researchers used to measure loneliness had 6 main levels. For every …