Scientists Link Faith and Transplant Survival

Here is an interesting survival rates in patients with faith and those without. You can go to the original article here.

RELIGIOUS transplant patients have a better chance of survival than those who do not believe in God, according to a new study.

Scientists at the Clinical Physiology Institute of the Pisa National Research Council followed the progress of 179 liver transplant recipients, Italian new agency ANSA reported. Their research found that 93.5 per cent of religious worshippers were still alive four years after their operation, while only 79.5 per cent of their non-religious counterparts survived. The statistics suggest that the mortality rate for a liver transplant patient who does not believe in God is three times higher than for those who do – 20.5 per cent compared to 6.6 per cent. “This is a statistically significant difference,” said psychologist Franco Bonaguidi, who led the probe. Previous studies charting the effect of religion on health have suggested that faith tends to promote healthy lifestyles, for example discouraging tobacco, alcohol and sexual promiscuity. Belonging to a church or a religion can also help provide patients with a sense of purpose and a close support network, researchers have observed. “It is about an intimate side of people’s personalities, which leads them to approach a serious disease as a chance to reconsider their own existence and values, and reassess its spiritual and transcendent elements,” Mr Bonaguidi told ANSA

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