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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Congratulations to ISL Faculty Affiliates
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2A2A2A;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Angelina R. Sutin, Martina Luchetti and Antonio Terracciano, all of the College of Medicine,
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">for their article in </span><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2A2A2A;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The Journals of Gerontology: Series B</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt">., which has been highlighted
as an Editor’s Choice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Their study, conducted with </span>
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2A2A2A;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Yannick Stephann of the University of Montpellier in France, draws on the Health and Retirement Study dataset and tests whether loneliness is associated with risk of dementia.
It also considers whether the association is independent of social isolation and whether it varies by demographic factors and genetic vulnerability.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2A2A2A;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The researchers found that loneliness is associated with increased risk of dementia. “Addressing this psychosocial risk factor,” the researchers say in
the article, “will likely have a broad range of positive outcomes, including lowering risk and prevalence of dementia.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/75/7/1414/5133324">
https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/75/7/1414/5133324</a>. </span>
<i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2A2A2A;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The Journals of Gerontology: Series B</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> is a publication of the
<a href="https://www.geron.org/">Gerontological Society of America</a>.</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Bill Edmonds, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Institute for Successful Longevity<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Florida State University<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.isl.fsu.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.isl.fsu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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