Among depressed or socially isolated heart-attack survivors, those who hold spiritual beliefs, regularly attend religious services, or frequently pray or meditate experience new cardiac symptoms and die from various causes at the same rate as their nonreligious counterparts do, researchers find.
Intrigued by prior reports that religious involvement fosters physical health, a team led by psychologist James A. Blumenthal of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.,
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