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The researchers monitored 1802 patients at six hospitals who had coronary bypass surgery. The patients were broken into three groups, two were prayed for, the third was not. Half the patients who received the prayers were told they were being prayed for; half were told they might or might not receive prayers. Prayers were performed by members of three Christian groups in monasteries and elsewhere, two Catholic and one Protestant, who were given written prayers and the first name and initial of the last name of the prayer subjects. The prayers started on the eve of or day of surgery and they lasted for two weeks. Analysing complications in the 30 days after surgery, researchers found no differences between those patients who were prayed for and those who were not. But a significantly higher number of patients who knew they were being prayed for, 59%, suffered complications, compared with 51% who were uncertain. The authors left open the possibility this was a chance finding. But they said being aware of the strangers' prayers may also have caused some patients a kind of performance anxiety. The study also found more patients in the prayer group, 18%, suffered major complications, like heart attack or stroke, compared with 13% in the group that did not receive prayers. In their report, the researchers suggested that this finding might also be a result of chance. You rolls the dice...