Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review

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Julianne Holt‐Lunstad1, Timothy B. Smith2, J. Bradley Layton3
1Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America
2Department of Counseling Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America
3Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America.

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