Frequency of church attendance and blood pressure elevation
- 1 March 1978
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Behavioral Medicine
- Vol. 1 (1) , 37-43
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00846585
Abstract
Blood pressure levels were examined with regard to church attendance patterns in a group of white male heads of households who appeared in the 1967–1969 follow-up examination of the Evans County Cardiovascular Epidemiologic Study. A consistent pattern of lower systolic and diastolic blood pressures among frequent church attenders was found compared to that of infrequent attenders which was not due to the effects of age, obesity, cigarette smoking, or socioeconomic status.Keywords
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