Can social support buffer the association between loneliness and hypertension? a cross-sectional study in rural China

• Aki Yazawa ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: aki.yazawa@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Human Ecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4335-3880

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• Yosuke Inoue,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Human Ecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Center for Clinical Sciences, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Taro Yamamoto,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of International Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Chiho Watanabe,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Human Ecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Raoping Tu,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of International Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki, Japan, School of Nursing, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China

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• Ichiro Kawachi

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

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