What Does Your Birth Month Have To Do With Your Health?
The month you were born in could be linked to your health; we take a look at a new study. Also in this week’s “Housecall for Health”: a link between your genes and your smile, virtual doctors, and abortion rates are on the decline.
FOX News Radio’s Pam Wentworth reports in “Housecall for Health”:
| Birth Month-Disease Associations Discovered Using SeaWAS (n?=?16) | ||
| EHR Condition in SeaWAS | Birth Month Risk | |
| High | Low | |
| Cardiovascular (n?=?9) | ||
| Atrial fibrillation | March | October |
| Essential hypertension | January | October |
| Congestive cardiac failure | March | October |
| Angina | April | September |
| Cardiac complications of care | April | September |
| Cardiomyopathy | January | September |
| Pre-infarction syndrome | June | October |
| Chronic myocardial ischemia | April | November |
| Mitral valve disorder | March | November |
| EHR Condition in SeaWAS | Birth Month Risk | |
| High | Low | |
| Other (n?=?7) | ||
| Acute upper respiratory infection | October | May |
| Bruising | December | April |
| Nonvenomous insect bite | October | February |
| Venereal disease screening | October | June |
| Primary malignant neoplasm of prostate | March | October |
| Malignant neoplasm of overlapping lesion of bronchus and lung | February | November |
| Vomiting | September | January |
SOURCE: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association | For a full expanded view of this chart and study click here
