Attending Church Linked to Lower Blood Pressure

Teresa Neumann : Dec 30, 2011
Michael Gryboski - The Christian Post

"If going to church leads you to a deeper relationship with God, as a result of a deeper sense of peace and a more loving relationship with your neighbor, then it could indeed affect blood pressure." -Dr. Harold G. Koenig

A newly published study by Norwegian researchers in the International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine reveals that lower blood pressure can be linked to church attendance.

Dr. Harold G. Koenig, one of the authors of the study, told The Christian Post, "About two-thirds of the research, now over 60 quantitative studies, report that those who are more religiously active have significantly lower blood pressure."

It wasn't related just to the fact that people attend church, noted Koenig, as much as what the people who attend church experience while they are there.

"If going to church leads you to a deeper relationship with God, as a result of a deeper sense of peace and a more loving relationship with your neighbor, then it could indeed affect blood pressure."