Titre : | Religious affiliation and all-cause mortality : A prospective population study in middle-aged men in Eastern Finland. (1996) |
Auteurs : | J. RASANEN ; G.A. KAPLAN ; J. KAUHANEN ; T.A. LAKKA ; J.T. SALONEN ; Research Institute of Public Health and Department of Community Health and General Practice. University of Kuopio. Kuopio. FIN |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | International journal of epidemiology (vol. 25, n° 6, 1996) |
Pagination : | 1244-1249 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Religion ; Mortalité ; Homme ; Epidémiologie ; Finlande ; Europe |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST R0x4PGGE. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Background. Previous data suggest a favourable association between religion and mortality. Methods. We investigated the association between selected religious groups and all-cause mortality in 1627 eastern Finnish men aged 42-60 years during 1984-1989 as a part of the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (KIHD). Results. Eastern Orthodox men had a 5.1-fold (95% confidence interval [CI : 1.98-13.3, P |