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Establishing a causal link between social relationships and health using the Bradford Hill Guidelines

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An abundance of evidence suggests that the size and quality of our social relationships improves humans' physical and mental health while increasing lifespan. However most of this evidence comes from observational rather than experimental (randomised trial) evidence, leaving open the possibility that the connection between social relationships and health could be associational rather than causal. However there are examples, including the link between smoking and lung cancer, where a cause was...

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10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100402

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Primary Care Health Sciences
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ORCID:
0000-0003-0280-7206
Publisher:
Elsevier
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Volume:
8
Article number:
100402
Publication date:
2019-05-04
Acceptance date:
2019-04-19
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2352-8273
ISSN:
2352-8273
Pmid:
31193417
Language:
English
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uuid:7f0f5b5a-d49e-403c-be4c-5ee0b90c07ad
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2020-01-15

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