People more likely to die on their birthdays, study finds
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Posted: 06/12/2012
When your birthday comes, you’ll be more likely to die on that day than any other, according to a recently released Journal Annals of Epidemiology study.
Over the course of 40 years, more than two million people were followed and scientists found a rise in fatal heart attacks, strokes fall and suicides that occurred on birthdays, The Telegraph reports.
The likelihood of dying on your birthday increases 14 percent once you hit age 60.
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