Study Links Birth Month and Disease Risk
May had the lowest risk, according to a Columbia University study.
— -- A provocative new study from Columbia University claims to have found a link between a person's birth month and a risk of disease.
Researchers compared nearly 1,700 diseases with the birth dates and medical histories of 1.7 million people treated at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center from 1985-2013. The study's findings: that 55 diseases were linked to birth month.
According to the study, which was published this week in the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association, May is the month with the lowest risk.
The month of October had the highest risk. A senior author of the study warned that people should not get "overly nervous" about the findings.
"The risk related to birth month is relatively minor when compared to more influential variables like diet and exercise," said Nicholas Tatonetti, an assistant professor of biomedical informatics at CUMC and Columbia's Data Science Institute.
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