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Social Networks Are Associated With Lower Mortality Rates Among Women With Suspected Coronary Disease: The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-Sponsored Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation Study

Thomas Rutledge, PhD, Steven E. Reis, MD, FACC, Marian Olson, MS, Jane Owens, PhD, Sheryl F. Kelsey, PhD, Carl J. Pepine, MD, FACC, Sunil Mankad, MD, FACC, William J. Rogers, MD, FACC, C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, FACC, George Sopko, MD, Carol E. Cornell, PhD, Barry Sharaf, MD, FACC and Karen A. Matthews, PhD

From the University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California (T.R.); the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (S.E.R., M.O., J.O., S.F.K., K.A.M); the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (C.J.P.); Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (S.M.); the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama (W.J.R., C.E.C.); Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California (C.N.B.M.); the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland (G.S.); and Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island (B.S.).



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Figure 1. Mortality rates among Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation subjects across quartiles of the Social Network Index (higher quartiles = higher social network scores).

 





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