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CellWell record HH-55253

Social isolation and loneliness associate with early menopause and mortality in women: a UK Biobank cohort study

Wang Y; Qi Y; Cao Z; Xu K; Xia R; Zhao S; Cui L; Wei D; Zhao H; Tang S; Qin Y; Guo T

BMC medicine ยท 2026

In plain language

In a UK Biobank study of nearly 80,000 women, social isolation and loneliness raised odds of early menopause, and women with early menopause had a much larger mortality increase from isolation than others.

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Cohort study

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