Previous data suggest a favourable association between religion and mortality.
We investigated the association between selected religious groups and all-cause mortality in 1627 eastern Finnish men aged 42-60 years during 1984-1989 as a part of the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (KIHD).
Eastern Orthodox men had a 5.1-fold (95% confidence interval [Cl: 1.98-13.3, P