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Prayer Improves Health Care For Coronary ...
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2009 (message contributor)
PRAYER IMPROVES HEALTH CARE FOR CORONARY PATIENTS
Research at San Francisco General Hospital has revealed that victims of heart attack, heart failure and other cardiac problems who were remembered in prayers fared better than those who were not. Cardiologist Randy Byrd assigned 192 patients to the "prayed-for" group and 201 patients to the "not-prayed-for" group. All patients were in the coronary intensive care unit. Patients, doctors and nurses did not know which group patients were in. Prayer group members were scattered around the nation and given only the first names, diagnoses and prognoses of patients. The researcher said that the results were dramatic. The prayed-for group had significantly fewer complications than the unremembered group. And fewer members of the former died. The latter group was five times more likely to develop infections requiring antibiotics, and three times more likely to develop a lung condition, leading to heart failure. These findings were published by the American Heart Association.
(From a sermon by Grant van Boeschoten, "House of Prayer" 1/26/2009)
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