The Lost ARC / Unit 4 ARC 078 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Relationships and Survival
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The idea
Julianne Holt-Lunstad's twenty ten meta-analysis, of one hundred forty-eight studies and more than three hundred thousand people, linked stronger social relationships to a fifty percent greater likelihood of survival.
In practice
Social ties weighing on mortality like established risk factors.
Where people slip
The paper compares the effect with smoking and alcohol use, and finds it larger than physical inactivity or obesity.
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