Having few friends, family and a general lack of social support is associated with poor health and quality of life and depression in young men and women a year after having a heart attack, according to new research in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Social support is the perception of having friends or family who serve as confidants and companions, offer advice and information, show emotional concern, or provide financial or material support, said Emily Bucholz, lead researcher and a student in the School of Medicine and the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology in the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Connecticut.
The findings linking the relationship between social support and health outcomes in heart attack patients are consistent with previous studies centered on older people, mostly men. But this study adds the new dimension of younger patients and women, and presents the opportunity to consider changes in guiding patients after heart attacks.
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