Religious-ethnic groups in Romania--correlations between lifestyle and health status.

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of the lifestyle factors from Romania on the state of health, to underlie the significant ethnical and/or confessional differences between the lifestyle and, respectively, their influence on the state of health. Our research group included 242 persons (males 88, females 155), the majority of them living in rural areas. We interviewed the subjects with the use of a questionnaire, we clinically and paraclinically investigated each and every one.