What is it about?

Is there a relationship between birthday and deathday? Do people postpone death until after their birthday? We examine the phenomenon in eight groups of famous people.

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Why is it important?

For most of the groups there was a death dip prior to the birthday and a rise thereafter. This may indicate psychophysiological mechanism and further reserch is needed to establish this.

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This page is a summary of: Happy birthday? An observational study, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, September 2018, BMJ,
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2018-210632.
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