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A study that was aimed at associating between the attendance at religious services and the subsequent mortality in women has revealed that women who attend a religious service more than once a week on average live five months longer than those who do not.
In a research conducted over a period of 20 years from 1992 to June 2012 among 74,534 women in the Nurses’ Health Study, attending a religious service more than once per week was also associated with a 33% lower mortality risk than those who never went to church. “Our results suggest that there may be something important about religious service attendance beyond (only) solitary spirituality (needs)” said Tyler VanderWeele, a professor of epidemiology at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard and author of the study which was published Monday in the JAMA Internal Medicine titled Attendance with Mortality among Women.
In the study conducted by VanderWeele and his team, it also revealed that women who attend church services more than once a week were 27 percent less likely to die from cardiovascular disease and 21 percent less likely to die from cancer compared to women who stayed at home.
During the 20-year research, it was also found out that church attending women were more likely to be married, had fewer depressive symptoms and were less likely to be smokers. The ladies were either Catholic or Protestants.
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