Social Networks Are Associated With Lower Mortality Rates Among Women With Suspected Coronary Disease: The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-Sponsored Womens 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 Womens Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation subjects across quartiles of the Social Network Index (higher quartiles = higher social network scores).
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