Figure 1. Risk of death or recurrent myocardial infarction (MI) among 503 post MI patients associated with frequency of worship service attendance (left panel) and frequency of prayer (right panel) along with adjustment covariates (i.e., Medical Risk score, Gender, Ethnicity, and Education). There were 61 events (29 deaths, 32 MIs). Values represent point estimate of hazard ratio (HR) and 95% Confidence limits from multivariable Cox proportional hazards model. HRs for Attendance and Prayer represent comparison to "Never" category of variable. Medical Risk is modeled as a continuous variable, scaled such that the HR compares a typical patient with a score of 3.1 (75th percentile value of Medical Risk in the present sample) with a patient with a score of 2.1 (25th percentile value of Medical Risk in the present sample). The omnibus test for the overall effect of Attendance was not statistically significant (p = .107). The omnibus test for the overall effect of Prayer also was not statistically significant (p = .679).