Med’s Eileen Anderson draws connection between isolation and greater risk of diseases

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WKYCEileen Anderson, the Anne Templeton Zimmerman MD Professor in Bioethics at the School of Medicine, discussed the “epidemic of loneliness,” noting that isolation is associated with a greater risk of heart disease, dementia, stroke, depression, anxiety and premature death.