Talk:Alameda County Study

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Vera Zingiber (talk) 10:17, 19 December 2015 (UTC) It seems strange to me this Wiki article refers only to one recent analysis of the original 1973 Alameda County Study by dr. Lisa Berkman, while omitting any reference to the original. Berkman published it in the renowned medical journal PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/425958). This original study had quite a different, in fact opposing conclusion: (citation:) "the findings show that people who lacked social and community ties were more likely to die in the follow-up period than those with more extensive contacts. (...) The association between social ties and mortality was found to be independent of self-reported physical health status at the time of the 1965 survey, year of death, socioeconomic status, and health practices such as smoking, alcoholic beverage consumption, obesity, physical activity, and utilization of preventive health services as well as a cumulative index of health practices."[reply]

I have not read the 2005 studies, so I am not capable of correcting this article, but it seems illogical and not to mention the original study and its results, and only mention one (out of many, it seems) follow up studies, by one single author.

Also, I have tried to edit the References section but being a new user, I did not succeed - clicking on "edit" made a jigsaw puzzle piece icon pop up, which I could not click on and left me otherwise clueless.