一人暮らしは健康に悪い？

Feb 17, 2015
Health
Why Living Alone Is Dangerous to Your Health

MARISA WEISS: Social isolation can be lethal. Research shows that living life alone is as dangerous as smoking or obesity. And when it comes to the five most common cancers affecting men and women, being married provided a greater survival benefit than chemotherapy (the benefit was greater for men than women)

社会的に孤立して、一人暮らししているのは、喫煙や肥満と同じくらい健康によくない、ガンなんかでは、化学療法よりも、結婚しているほうが延命効果がある、とーーーーへええ。


社会的孤立というのは、　引用文献をみると、

Social isolation: a predictor of mortality comparable to traditional clinical risk factors

RESULTS:

Socially isolated men and women had worse unadjusted survival curves than less socially isolated individuals. Cox models revealed that social isolation predicted mortality for both genders, as did smoking and high blood pressure. Among men, individual social predictors included being unmarried, participating infrequently in religious activities, and lacking club or organization affiliations; among women, significant predictors were being unmarried, infrequent social contact, and participating infrequently in religious activities.
CONCLUSIONS:

The strength of social isolation as a predictor of mortality is similar to that of well-documented clinical risk factors. Our results suggest the importance of assessing patients' level of social isolation.

結婚していない、というのと他に、教会にかよっていない、とか、クラブの属していないとか、要するに社交性が少ない、ということだね。

もっとも、夫婦生活で命を削りあっている人たちももいるでしょうけど。