Published online before print
June 13, 2007, 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31806c7c57
Religious Service Attendance and Allostatic Load Among High-Functioning Elderly
Joanna Maselko, ScD,
Laura Kubzansky, PhD,
Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD,
Teresa Seeman, PhD and
Lisa Berkman, PhD
From the Department of Public Health (J.M.), Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Department of Society, Human Development and Health (L.K., I.K., L.B.), Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Department of Epidemiology (T.S.), University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

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Figure 1. Schematic diagram of proposed associations between religious engagement, physiological dysregulation (allostatic load) and disease. CHD = coronary heart disease; CVD = cardiovascular disease.
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