3. Dementia:
“The elderly experience sadness and emotional distress when their children grow up and leave home, so, chronic loneliness is quite common among the old ones; the risk of Alzheimer’s dementia doubles in senior citizens of normal health undergoing chronic loneliness”.
Cardiovascular issues: “There also seems to a dose-response relationship of loneliness with cardiovascular health risk in young adults; their heart health risks proportionately increased according to their level of isolation, loneliness is also associated with increased systolic blood pressure, high cholesterol levels and chances of obesity”,
