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Social networks, host resistance, and mortality: a nine-year follow-up study of Alameda County residents.

L. Berkman, S. Syme

1979.2.1AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a112674

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The findings show that people who lacked social and community ties were more likely to die in the follow-up period than those with more extensive contacts.

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BERKMAN, L.; SYME, S. Social networks, host resistance, and mortality: A nine-year follow-up study of alameda county residents. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, 1979, 109 2: 186–204.