The relationship between religion and cardiovascular outcomes and all-cause mortality in the women's health initiative observational study

Psychology and Health

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 249-263

  Schnall, Eliezer ^a   Wassertheil Smoller, Sylvia ^b   Swencionis, Charles ^a   Zemon, Vance ^a   Tinker, Lesley ^c   O'Sullivan, Mary Jo ^d   van Horn, Linda ^e   Goodwin, Mimi ^b  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Religion and health; Religion and psychology; Religious behaviour and cardiovascular disease; Religious behaviour and coronary heart disease; Religious behaviour and health; Religious behaviour and mortality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RELIGION; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 77649153936     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: 14768321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870440802311322     Document Type: Article

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