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Praying to get pregnant? New science says you may get an answer - home & family
Natural Health, April, 2002
RESEARCHERS AT COLUMBIA University in New York City recently found that women who were trying to conceive were more likely to become pregnant when, unknown to them, strangers prayed for them daily. The study was done on 219 women between the ages of 26 and 46 being treated at an in vitro fertilization clinic in Seoul, Korea. Half the women were prayed for several times a day by prayer groups in Australia, Canada, and the United States. The other half were not prayed for at all. After four months, twice as many of the women who were prayed for became pregnant, compared to the group that wasn't prayed for. The results were published in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine in September 2001.
Rogerio Lobo, M.D., chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and co-author of the study, admits that the findings seem scientifically improbable. But he says that they wouldn't have published the results if they weren't statistically significant. Lobo isn't ready to prescribe prayer to women as a way to become pregnant, but he says that these findings deserve further study. --K.P.L.
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