Attending Religious Services Ups Life Expectancy

"A study conducted by the California Public Health Foundation, which was published in the American Journal of Public Health, found a strong association between attendance at religious services and lower mortality over a 28-year period for 5,286 Alameda County residents. Another study, conducted at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and also published in the American Journal of Public Health, evaluated religious attendance and subsequent mortality over a five-year span for 1,931 elderly residents of Marin County, California. Once again, the findings found that religious service attendance had a protective effect on life expectancy."

Mind Over Medicine
Lissa Rankin, M.D.
2013 Hay House

W.J. Strawbridge et al., "Frequent Attendance at Religious Services and Mortality over 28 Years," American Journal of Public Health 87, no.6 (June 1997): 957-61

D. Oman and D. Reed, "Religion and Mortality among Community-Dwelling Elderly," American Journal of Public Health 88, no. 10 (October 1998): 1469-75.