Need a new liver? Better find God first

[Boingo]

Religiosity associated with prolonged survival in liver transplant recipients (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lt.22122/abstract)

Using multivariate analysis, only the Search for God factor ... and the post-transplant length of stay in the intensive care unit ... were independently associated with survival, even after adjusting for age, sex, marital status, employment, educational level, viral etiology, Child-Pugh score, serum creatinine, time from questionnaire to transplant, donor age, intraoperative bleeding, Waiting for God factor and Fatalism.

[ratcharmer]

This is a neat article.

I find it interesting (and rather telling) that "searching for God" active religion improved survival whereas the more passive "waiting for God" did not.

I'll come back with more once I've finished the article.

*edit: I can't get the full text. I'll try from a school computer.