A recent study in University of Chicago showed a strong and direct relation between loneliness and Blood pressure. Interestingly the relation has nothing to do with the age and other factors like mass of the body, smoking, and alcohol. Depression and stress are also considered into account but no relation was found.

Louise Hawkley one of the researchers wrote in an article that loneliness is a high risk unique factor that influences a blood pressure of a person. “Loneliness Predicts Increased Blood Pressure,” he wrote in one of the journal Psychology and Aging.

Hawkley, has been doing research for a long time in Cognitive and Social Neuroscien, trying to find the influence of loneliness on real time life issues. Hawley, with his team examined as many as 229 people who were aged in between 50 to 68. All these people were included in a long term study and were asked few questions to find if they are lonely.

After the course of the study Hawkley found the clear relation between loneliness and blood pressure by noticing the blood pressure rise of people who reported loneliness in the initial stages of the study. He also stated that it took two long years to find the relation and the process was continued to find further increase in Blood pressure. Interestingly, people who stay lonely for shortest of periods were also impacted.