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SUBMITTER: Kim DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5013792 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20160801 1837
Socially isolated individuals face elevated rates of illness and death. Conventional measures of social connectedness reflect an individual's perceived network and can be subject to bias and variation in reporting. In this study of a large human social network, we find that greater indegree, a sociocentric measure of friendship and familial ties identified by a subject's social connections rather than by the subject, predicts significantly lower concentrations of fibrinogen (a biomarker of infla ...[more]