Your birth month tells you how you will die

Scary, ey?

Researchers at Columbia University in New York have developed an algorithm which shows a correlation between your birth month and your risk level of developing certain diseases.

Strange outcomes of the study include that people born in May are generally at lowest risk of developing diseases, while those born in November have a high risk of getting ADHD.

October babies are more likely to get STIs, whereas those born in March are plagued by heart problems.

Brave enough to see what disease you’re most likely to develop? We’ve put the full list below.

January - Hypertension, cardiomyopathy (heart muscle disease)

February - Lung and bronchial cancer

March - Cardiac failure, mitral valve disorder, arrhythmia

April - Angina

May - No increased likelihood of disease

June - Preinfarction syndrome (severe angina)

July - Asthma

August - Another lucky month

September - Vomiting

October - Insect bites, STIs, chest infections

November - Least likely to develop arrhythmia, mitral valve disorder and lung cancer

December - Bruising

However, doctors involved in the study said: ‘It’s important not to get overly nervous about these results because even though we found significant associations the overall disease risk is not great.’

Dr Tatonetti, an assistant professor of biomedical informatics at Colombia, said that we would do better to worry about maintaining the right diet and getting enough exercise.