| 26% | Prayed-for heart patients at the Mayo Clinic who died or had more heart trouble within six months. |
| 29% | Not-prayed-for heart patients at the Mayo Clinic who had these problems. |
| 97% | Patients who pray the night before they have heart surgery. |
| 18% | Heart attack survivors who had near-death experiences while they were clinically dead, according to a Dutch study. |
| 19% | Christian book-shoppers who want more Christian fiction. |
| 12% | Christian book-shoppers who want more Bible studies. |
Related Elsewhere
Articles referenced above include:
Intercessory prayer and cardiovascular disease progression in a coronary care unit population — Mayo Clinic Proceedings (pdf)
Christianity Today’s past Go Figure columns include:
Changes after September 11 (Nov. 12, 2001)
How many U.S. senior pastors have a gift of evangelism? (Dec. 14, 2001)
More Americans who read the Bible are “at peace” than those who don’t. (Jan. 25, 2002)
