Dr. Nicholas Christakis Quotes

When a spouse is hospitalized, the partner's risk of death increases significantly and remains elevated for up to two years. Stress and lack of social support may also adversely affect immunologic measures, so spousal hospitalization may have physiological effects on partners. - Dr. Nicholas Christakis

What it shows is that people are interconnected, and their health is interconnected, and seeing a person you love suffer, seeing them ill, harms you. - Dr. Nicholas Christakis

What it means to me is that people are interconnected, and so their health is interconnected, and in really real ways, there can be a kind of spread of disease between people. - Dr. Nicholas Christakis

We showed that you can die of a broken heart not just when your partner dies, but also when your partner falls ill. - Dr. Nicholas Christakis

The timing of such interventions might be matched to the riskiest times for caregivers, for example, just after the hospitalization of the spouse. - Dr. Nicholas Christakis

On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too. - Dr. Nicholas Christakis

A spouse with cancer is generally not as burdensome for a partner as more disabling conditions such as dementia, where you combine both the stress of caring for the spouse and waning social support from your partner. - Dr. Nicholas Christakis

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