It was a tiny sample, but the implications of the study, published - TopicsExpress



          

It was a tiny sample, but the implications of the study, published in 2007, were great: loneliness, it seems, shapes one’s health by controlling the “dimmer switch” for whole networks of immune-related genes. Indeed, this overexpression of proinflammatory genes and suppression of anti-inflammatory and antiviral genes might explain why lonely people are more likely to succumb to a variety of diseases, and why HIV ravages socially isolated people more quickly than their more connected peers. the-scientist/?articles.view/articleNo/41708/title/Stress-Fractures/
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 02:43:37 +0000

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