Effects of Chronic and State Loneliness on Heart Rate Variability in Women.

CONCLUSIONS: The current findings provide evidence that chronic loneliness is associated with altered parasympathetic function (both resting HRV and HRV reactivity) in women, and that the immediate experience of state loneliness is linked to a proximate increase in HRV among chronically lonely women. Results are discussed in terms of implications for cardiovascular health and the evolutionary functions of loneliness. PMID: 32889527 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Annals of Behavioral Medicine - September 4, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Roddick CM, Chen FS Tags: Ann Behav Med Source Type: research