health, disease, life expectancy: the month of your birth influences your fate.
looks like astrology or superstitions - but in this case we will talk about the research, conducted by scientists ...
Zodiac can talk about your character?Helmuth Nyborg Danish psychologist at the University of Aarhus in scientifically proved that it is not.Rather, your date of birth can tell something about the health risks to which you may be destined to encounter.
fact that, as many studies show, the seasonal influence of the environment, such as an increased risk of infectious diseases and reducing the quality of supply in the months before and after the person's birth can influence his condition later in life.
in the womb and after birth, apparently, laid the foundations for further human existence.Responsible for this are the so-called epigenetic effects of genetic material.Thus, genetics can prove, for example, stress can lead to molecular changes in the genes.
Later, these changes can be crucial to how active a gene is.Of course, the particular person's lifestyle, such as eating habits, exercise and education, may be much more important.However, the month in which the child was born, a significant influence on what we can expect from his life.
Anyone who was born in December, is more likely to live to a ripe old age.However, those born in the winter there is an increased risk of developing schizophrenia or manic-depressive psychosis.According to one study conducted by demographers Gabriele Doblhammer-Vaupelem Reiter and James, were born in December can expect starting from the age of 50 that will live for 4-8 months longer than their peers who were born in April or June.Scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Rostock, experts in demography, examined data on the population of Denmark and Austria, covering several decades.
As for Germany, it is the scientists come to the following conclusions: the probability to live to 105 years for those born in December and surviving to old age people is 16% higher than the average of their peers who were born in other months.For those born in winter reduces the risk to move into another world because the most common causes in the age group 50 years and older: diseases of the cardiovascular system, the age of diabetes and cancer.
in favor of the reason is the seasonal variation in the range of products and the risk of contracting infectious diseases during and shortly after pregnancy, prove data from the US: the example of the relationship between date of birth and the health of those over 50, most clearly seen in the southern USwhere the quality of food throughout the year varies strongly and various epidemics breaking out more often than in other US states.
except for minor regional variations, this model is valid for the whole of the northern hemisphere.In the southern hemisphere, where summer is in December, this model is shifted by a month - evidenced by comparative data for Australia.
increased risk of developing schizophrenia or manic depression for those who celebrate their birthday in December or January, confirmed more than 250 studies conducted around the world.The number of psychiatric patients born in winter, about 8% more than others.
Australian doctor John McGrath of the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research believes that the explanation should be sought in the lack of sunlight during pregnancy.The less ultraviolet radiation impact on the future mother, the lower her skin synthesized Vitamin D - the substance responsible for the formation of the fetal brain.
Other works do not see the relationship between the sun's rays during pregnancy and the risk of disease in the future.Therefore, most scholars are inclined to think that an important role is also played by currently unknown seasonal conditions.
Born in February and March, more likely to suffer from an allergy to pollen.Birth of a few months before the spread in the air any kind of pollen increases the risk of later respond to this stimulus allergies - so it is possible to summarize the findings of eight studies on this subject published in the last 30 years.
most common forms of pollen causes hay fever grass and birch, which in Germany is beginning to appear in the air in April and May.According to one theory, the immature immune system of the newborn is too intense reacts to pollen, and this reaction can be fixed.
An obscure reasons are the following phenomenon, the facts show that children born in February and March, are particularly prone to difficulties in the perception of school material.This phenomenon gave a staff pediatrician Paul Winchester of Indiana University.
According to the expert, especially a lot of students who need special approach (including autism and attention or impaired, as well as children with Down syndrome), were born in February or March.The results of this study are supported by data from Israel, where Dr. EPAM Barak of Yehuda Abarbanel Mental Health Center compared the dates of birth of patients with autism who were born in the period from 1964 to 1986, setting at the same time that the highest number of patients were born in March and August.
Winchester hypothesized that in the US the cause of learning difficulties is an increased concentration of agricultural pesticides in drinking water in May and June, that is, in those months when there is a conception.Presumably, this affects the development of the embryo.
for people who have reached the age of maturity, who were born in the months since March, life begins to decline.A tendency to diseases of the cardiovascular system, on the contrary, increased - and the closer the date of birth to the summer months, the greater.As, however, and predisposition to diseases of the respiratory system in a more advanced age.
Thus, according to mortality National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), between 1989 and 1997, North Americans, born in November and died due to respiratory diseases, lived an average of six months longer than their birthsummer peers.
This conclusion came demographer Gabriele Doblhammer-Reiter, who has studied 15.6 million contained in the database NCHS death certificates from the perspective of a possible relationship between life expectancy and birth date."Those who are born in the winter, were likely to be more stable, and later fell ill," - says the researcher.
possible explanation scientists are at increased risk for those born in the spring and summer children pick up in the first months of life, coinciding with the fall, viral infection of the upper respiratory tract, which can lead to bronchitis and pneumonia.Infectious diseases of the lower respiratory tract, transferred the child at an early age, he is considered to be a factor, fraught with a penchant for chronic lung disease in the future.
similar depending on the month of birth is evident on the example contained in the database on the NCHS mortality data for people with dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.April and May may affect the propensity to later mental disorders, depression and alcoholism.
At least Emed Saliba British psychiatrist from the University of Liverpool, this explains the fact that suicides occur among those born in April and May by 17% more likely than those born in autumn or winter.A team of scientists led by Saliba examine data for each of the 26916 cases established suicide and deaths of unknown causes during the period from 1979 to 2001 in England and Wales.
According to the study, born in May, face an increased risk of suffering from multiple sclerosis.A group of researchers under the leadership of Kirsten Wheeler biostatistics from the University of Michigan has processed data 71 400 patients from Canada, Great Britain, Denmark and Sweden.Face the risk of multiple sclerosis among those born in May, 13% higher than that of people born in November, which are less likely to face the disease.It is not clear what environmental factors shortly before or shortly after birth affect this.
Fortunately, in each case can refute the statistics: there are more important factors than the date of birth.David Beckham, for example, was born in May.A famous German biologist Ernst Mayr - in June.And he lived in good health and excellent physical shape to 100 years.
Articles Source: cherniy-kot.ru
