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This finding looks at the relationship between religious attendance and cancer mortality risk.

Respondents who attended religious services frequently tended to have lower cancer mortality rates than peers who attended less frequently, controlling for age and gender.

Sample or Data Description
Data came from the Alameda County Study. The analytical sample consisted of 6,545 respondents, aged 21 or older in 1965, who had no missing data on any variable in the study. Respondents were followed in the study from 1965 to 1996.

Source
"Religious Attendance and Cause of Death over 31 Years"
Oman, D.
Kurata, J. H., Strawbridge, W. J., Cohen, R. D.
International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine Vol. 32, Number 1. , 2002. Page(s) 69-89.

FindingID: 9097