life expectancylongevityseasonality of birth
season of birth and human longevity
Autor(en)
Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS
Veröffentlichungsdatum
1999
Ort der Sudie
Europe
Abstract
The authors studied 4911 genealogical longevity records for women from European aristocratic families (data from birth cohorts born 1800-1880). According to this study the life expectancy of women born in May or December was three years longer than for those born in August (p<0.001)
Diskussion
full text available: http://www.src.uchicago.edu/~gavr1/Season-of-Birth.pdf