{"id":2437,"date":"2023-05-24T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/?p=2437"},"modified":"2023-05-24T10:01:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T07:01:22","slug":"is-loneliness-really-as-damaging-to-your-health-as-smoking-15-cigarettes-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/is-loneliness-really-as-damaging-to-your-health-as-smoking-15-cigarettes-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Is loneliness really as damaging to your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vivek Murthy, the US surgeon general, recently warned that \u201cbeing socially disconnected\u201d has a similar effect on mortality as smoking\u00a0up to 15 cigarettes a day. This statement was widely reported in the media, including in the\u00a0Washington Post, the Times\u00a0and the\u00a0Daily Mail. But where does this \u201c15 cigarettes a day\u201d figure come from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Murthy is referring to\u00a0a study published in 2010\u00a0that explored social relationships and mortality rates. The researchers combined the data from 148 studies on the topic, in what is known as a \u201cmeta-analysis\u201d, to arrive at a more robust statistical answer to their questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meta-analysis contained data on 300,000 participants who were studied for an average of seven and a half years. The researchers explored the extent to which social relationships can influence the risk of premature death, the aspects of social relationships that are most likely to predict an early death, and any factors that mitigate the risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read the whole article by the original source through the link below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/theconversation.com\/amp\/is-loneliness-really-as-damaging-to-your-health-as-smoking-15-cigarettes-a-day-204959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/theconversation-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/theconversation.com\/amp\/is-loneliness-really-as-damaging-to-your-health-as-smoking-15-cigarettes-a-day-204959<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivek Murthy, the US surgeon general, recently warned that \u201cbeing socially disconnected\u201d has a similar effect on mortality as smoking\u00a0up to 15 cigarettes a day. This statement was widely reported in the media, including in the\u00a0Washington Post, the Times\u00a0and the\u00a0Daily Mail. But where does this \u201c15 cigarettes a day\u201d figure come from? Dr Murthy is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[67,65,121,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-depression-el","category-emotions-feelings-el","category-loneliness-el","category-mood-el","entry","has-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/file-20230509-12882-axffgt.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p87S9d-Dj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}