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Recent research in religiousness and health suggests that epidemiological forces can have opposed effects. Here we examine two forms of religiousness and their association with disease. We performed a cross-sectional study of 23,864 people aged 50+ included in wave 1 (2004–2005) of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and a longitudinal study including people from wave 1, who were...