A new study shows that attending religious places of worship such as mosques, churches or synagogues may help you live longer.
"We found in our study that actually attending a place of worship is actually good for your health, particularly for those who are between the ages of 40 and 65,” said Marino Bruce, the associate director of Vanderbilt’s Center for Research on Men’s Health, in a video posted on Vanderbilt University's website on Friday.
The study showed reduced mortality risk by 55% for those middle-aged adults who go to churches, synagogues, mosques or other houses of worship, Muslim Press reported.
"For those who did not attend a place of worship at all, they were twice as likely to die prematurely than those who did attend at some point over the last year,” Bruce said.
For the study a total of 5,449 participants of both sexes and races were recorded. The researchers used publicly available data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which is collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.