Researchers at New York’s Columbia University recently completed a new study and they believe there is a connection between the month you were born and how healthy you are.
It sounds a little bizarre and one of the researchers, Dr. Nicholas Tatonetti, acknowledged this saying: “whenever I present our work, I have to allow for laugh time”.
That said, the new report published by Dr. Tatonetti and his colleagues features some interesting findings.
The research team poured over New York City medical databases from the last 14 years and concluded that people born in May and August had the lowest risk of disease, and those born in October had the highest risk.
They found that out of the 1,688 conditions for which patients were seen, there were 55 diseases that showed a connection with birth month that could not be explained by pure chance, something the researchers established through statistical tests.
The study, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, also found that people born in July and October had higher risk of asthma, while those born in June and April are more likely to develop angina.
Speaking about the research, Dr Tanetti said: “It’s important not to get overly nervous about these results because even though we found significant associations the overall disease risk is not that great”.
“The risk related to birth month is relatively minor when compared to more influential variables like diet and exercise”.
