The quality of spouses' social networks contributes to each other's cardiovascular risk.

Although the quality of one's own social relationships has been related to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, whether a partner's social network quality can similarly influence one's cardiovascular risk is unknown. In this study we tested whether the quality of a partner's s...

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Main Authors: Bert N Uchino, Timothy W Smith, McKenzie Carlisle, Wendy C Birmingham, Kathleen C Light
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3749188?pdf=render