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Does social isolation increase the risk of mortality in patients with significant coronary artery disease?
Does social isolation increase the risk of mortality in patients with significant coronary artery disease?
Social isolation is a significant, independent predictor of both cardiac and all-cause mortality in patients with coronary artery disease, independent of disease severity, demographics, or psychological distress.
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Social isolation assessment may aid CAD risk stratification; hypothesis-generating for interventional trials.
Brummett et al. (2001) studied this question.
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