Your birthday may predict your chances of getting certain diseases, according to a new study.
In the study, researchers found that people’s birth months were linked with the risk of getting one or more of 55 different diseases. Overall, people in the study who were born in May were least likely to get a birth-month-related disease, whereas people born in October were most likely to get one.
“This data could help scientists uncover new disease risk factors,” Nicholas Tatonetti, the senior author of the study and an assistant professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University, said in a statement.
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