Is loneliness associated with an increased risk of incident cardiovascular disease in diabetes patients?
Loneliness is an independent risk factor for incident cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes, with an additive effect when traditional risk factors are poorly controlled.
Among diabetes patients, loneliness, but not social isolation scale, is associated with a higher risk of CVD and shows an additive interaction with the degree of risk factor control.
Wang et al. (Thu,) studied this question.