Loneliness is Hard on Your Heart, says Study

Love is good for the body.

There's nothing worse than being lonely. You have no one to talk to, no one to play games with and no one to stop you from going crazy. But now, loneliness is even worse than we thought. According to a new study, it can even damage your heart.

In research conducted by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, it was found that being lonely can have a huge effect on the health of people, especially women.

"I was particularly intrigued by the documented findings that people can feel lonely despite having many people in their lives," said Rebecca C. Thurston, professor of epidemiology and psychiatry. "When it comes to loneliness, it’s not just how many friends you have, but also how supported you feel. You can have a lot of people around you and still feel lonely."

The study looked at almost 20 years of data that covered over 3,000 men and women. Subjects were given full physical examinations and then surveyed on a broad range of topics, including loneliness. The health of the subjects was then tracked over the years.

What Prof. Thurston found was that women who started out the loneliest ended up with a 76% chance of developing heart disease.

So go get healthy and make some friends and fall in love. Your heart will thank you for it.

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