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Interest in the extent to which psychosocial factors influence the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease is growing. Although some studies suggest that individuals with social support are less likely to develop CVD than those without social support, evidence of a positive association between being married and CVD raises the possibility that the quality of social relationships affects CVD incidence.
Investigators used a validated questionnaire to study the relation between CVD and negative aspects of social relationships in a cohort of 9011 middle-aged U.K. civil servants free of CVD at baseline. Over a mean follow-up period of 12.2 years, participants who reported negative aspects of social relationships had a significantly higher risk for …