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Across 148 studies and more than 300,000 people, those with strong social ties had a fifty percent greater likelihood of surviving the study period than those without. Company is a survival factor.

Julianne Holt-Lunstad and colleagues, 2010 · meta-analytic research finding on social relationships and mortality

Holt-Lunstad J, Smith TB, Layton JB, Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review, PLoS Medicine, 2010

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Julianne Holt-Lunstad and colleagues: Across 148 studies and more than 300,000 people, those with strong social ties had a fifty percent greater likelihood of surviving the study period than those without. Company is a survival factor.