Can Loneliness Kill You?

We all feel lonely sometimes, but are the effects serious?
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References/Further Reading:
https://research.vu.nl/ws/portalfiles... Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Loneliness in Adults: The Netherlands Twin Register Study
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... Loneliness, health, and mortality in old age: A national longitudinal study
http://heart.bmj.com/content/102/13/1009 Loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for coronary heart disease and stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal observational studies
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine... Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/... Being Ignored Hurts, Even by a Stranger
https://keelyamuscatell.files.wordpre... Yearning for connection? Loneliness is associated with increased ventral striatum activity to close others
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.c... Social regulation of gene expression in human leukocytes
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/... Why is loneliness so toxic? Scientists are exploring what it does to the human body
http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/rele... Loneliness Predicts Self-Reported Cold Symptoms After a Viral Challenge
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases... How stress influences disease: Study reveals inflammation as the culprit
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... Loneliness and Cortisol: Momentary, Day-to-day, and Trait Associations
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publi... The Lonely Society
https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/... Loneliness in Relation to Suicide Ideation and Parasuicide: A Population-Wide Study
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cul... Suicide, a Crime of Loneliness
https://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/gene... Lonliness among Older Adults
http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/early/201... Feelings of loneliness, but not social isolation, predict dementia onset: results from the Amsterdam Study of the Elderly (AMSTEL)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2... Loneliness linked to major life setbacks for millennials, study say