Longevity and month of birth

Longevity and month of birth: evidence from Austria and Denmark.

This study investigates the relationship between month of birth and life span. It uses 2 different data for total populations in Austria and Denmark. The Austrian data are based on vital statistics of the exact data of birth and the exact date of death for each person dying after age 50 between 1988 and 1996. The Danish data consist of the total population aged 50+ on April 1, 1968. These p...

Month of Birth and Exceptional Longevity: A Within-Family Analysis

This study explores the effects of month of birth (a proxy for early-life environmental influences) on the chances of survival to age 100. Months of birth for 1,574 validated centenarians born in the United States in 1880-1895 were compared to the same information obtained for centenarians’ 10,885 shorter-lived siblings and 1,083 spouses. Comparison was conducted using a within-family analysis ...

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in context with the paradigm―month of birth and longevity

Time and environmental physical activity are involved in timing of many medical events. In a recent study published by the National Academy of Science, USA it was shown that month of birth is related to longevity. The aim of this study was to check the month of birth distribution in a great group of AMI patients of both gender, one of the great killers in the developed countries, to check the m...

Month of Birth and the Incidence of Multiple Sclerosis in Southern Iran

Month of birth, hemisphere of birth and schizophrenia.

BACKGROUND To assess quarterly fluctuations in schizophrenia births in a southern hemisphere data set, and to compare the quarterly birth distributions of patients born in the northern and southern hemisphere. METHOD The month and place of birth of patients with schizophrenia (n = 9348) were extracted from a mental health register. RESULTS The quarterly birth distribution of patients with s...