A new study has linked feeling forlorn to a nearly 80 percent increase in the risk of heart disease—but only in women. People feel lonely when they don’t have a sense of connectedness with their friends and families, experts say. “Loneliness is related to how fulfilled we feel in our relationships,” said Brooke Aggarwal, a researcher in preventive cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital. “We experience feelings of loneliness when we feel that what we’re getting from our relationships falls short of what we expect.”
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