You may consider loneliness to simply be an emotion that will pass, but a new study has found Black women’s propensity to loneliness may put them at an increased risk for heart disease and other illnesses.
“African-American women at risk for cardiovascular disease have unique predictors of loneliness — financial stress and subjective social status — as compared to non-Hispanic white women,” said study author Karen Saban, RN, PhD, Associate Dean for Research at Loyola University’s School of Nursing, in a news release from the International Stroke Conference.
Although the findings are preliminary, because there is evidence loneliness can increase risk for heart disease, the researchers said these findings could lead to new ways to address the effects socio-economic status and loneliness have in vulnerable populations, such as older Black women who also reported having fewer social links and less reliable social report. Among white women, only symptoms of depression and social integration uniquely predicted loneliness, said Saban.
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