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Meta-analysis of 2.2M people: Loneliness increases mortality risk by 32%

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Re: Meta-analysis of 2.2M people: Loneliness increases mortality risk by 32%

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I haven't dug into all the sources, but I think there's a potential confounder here, or maybe even reverse causality. The author seems to assume causation when the studies only indicate correlation. E.g. the first link says "chronic loneliness increases mortality risk" but the actual source says "actual and perceived social isolation are both associated with increased risk for early mortality". So for example, it's p…

> If this were the case, we could defend claims like "autism increases mortality", because we already know that autism increases social isolation. Are you aware that life expectancy is much lower for peel with autism than the general public? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6713622/

I was not aware of this, but this actually supports my point, since the reasons in that study seem to be correlated physical comorbidities, so that makes the claim "autism increases mortality due social isolation" both easier to make (as you can misinterpret the stats) as well as less defensible.

Re: Meta-analysis of 2.2M people: Loneliness increases mortality risk by 32%

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s another side where the people you’re around downplay any sort of medical concern you have and actually discourage getting help. So I guess you have: bad company < no company < good company

That's only the case if you're unaware you're in bad company! I've known a few people that were excellent weathervanes as long as you were aware there were going to always be wrong by 180 degrees.

That’s a good framing. Just gotta be careful not to let it turn you cynical over time.

Re: Meta-analysis of 2.2M people: Loneliness increases mortality risk by 32%

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Germany has great bread, how come did the author have a problem to find good bread? Yes, that's my only issue with the article :)

"moved from Germany to write here " So missing the good German bread. Doesn't say where 'here' is.

I must have bread that wrong.
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