Global birth season study links environment with disease risk.

Global birth season study links environment with disease risk.A new study sheds light on connections between birth month and risk for certain diseases.Studies have shown that babies born in winter tend to have a greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes at some point, while fall babies have a greater lifetime risk of depression. In the analysis of health information from more than 10 million patients living in three countries and five different climates, data scientists have found that a woman's exposure to certain seasonal or environmental factors during pregnancy may affect her offspring's lifetime disease risk. The findings were reported online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.