The study reported that patients with a high level of social isolation had a 68% increased risk of hospitalisation and a 57% increased risk of emergency department visits.
New US research has found that heart failure patients who feel lonely are more likely to require hospitalisation than patients who feel less socially isolated.
Researchers from the Mayo Clinic, John Hopkins University, and Olmsted County Public Health Services in the US surveyed 2,003 patients who had been diagnosed with heart failure, a condition which occurs when the heart is too weak to effectively pump blood throughout the body.
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