Social Engagement & All-Cause Mortality: A Focus on Minority Aging Research Study Participants

Social Engagement and All-Cause Mortality: A Focus on Participants of the Minority Aging Research Study, in American Journal of Preventive Medicine

key takeaway: Among African Americans, "mortality risk decreased by 34% (hazard ratio=0.66; 95% CI=0.48, 0.91; p=0.012) for those with higher compared with that for those with lower social activity generally, with community/volunteer-, group-, and socially-related activities specifically driving these results."