Health trajectories of individuals who quit active religious attendance: analysis of four prospective cohort studies in the United States.

Published in: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology (2023)

These results suggest that religious disengagement is a correlate-not a cause-of a life course characterized by poorer health and health behaviors. The religious decline caused by people leaving their religion is unlikely to influence population health.

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