The following excerpt is from an article posted at health.msn.co.nz:
New research shows we are more likely to die on our birthday than any other day of the year.
Swiss researchers analysed the death records of 2.4 million people over almost 40 years and found people were 13.8 percent more likely to die on their birthday.
The scientists from the University of Zurich found an increase in strokes, heart attacks, falls and suicides on people’s birthdays.
There was a 28.5 percent increase in accidental deaths and a 44 percent increase in the number of deaths from falls on birthdays.
The rate of heart attacks rose by 18.6 percent and were more common in men. Strokes increased by 21.5 percent and were more likely in women.
“Birthdays end lethally more frequently than might be expected,” Dr Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross from the University of Zurich concluded.
