Scientists from the American Cancer Society found that living alone increases the risk of death from cancer by 32%. The results were published in the journal Cancer.
The authors used data on more than 473,000 Americans collected from 1998 to 2019. They found that U.S. adults living alone had a 32% higher risk of cancer-related death than those living with others.
For men, the figure was even higher: The risk was 38% higher, and for single women, the risk was 30% higher. This effect was especially pronounced in people aged 45 to 64: the risk of death from cancer was 43% higher than in those living with others.
Adults living alone were found to be older, male, have incomes below the poverty line, and were more likely to have serious psychological distress, severe obesity, and alcohol and nicotine addiction. Scientists believe that programs to increase the level of screening for various types of cancer in this group could improve the situation.
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