A Columbia University study found that the month you were born in might affect your chances of catching certain illness and diseases. According to the study, which was published in the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association, 'Birth Month Affects Lifetime Disease Risk,' it used software to cross check medical records of over 1.7 million patients.

This study was done using records of patients treated at New York Presbyterian Hospital between 1985 and 2013.

It used an algorithm to rule out more than 1,600 associations, and confirmed 39 links between birth months and diseases.

Here are the results:

The birth months with the highest risk for diseases were October and November. Low risk months for diseases included February and April.

March and April were highest risk months for cardiovascular diseases.

As for respiratory diseases, October and November were high.

November was also found to be a high-risk month for reproductive diseases, including viral infections like AIDS and herpes, cancers, and more.

Here's a chart to check out:

While this may be alarming, there are also other contributing factors to good and bad health such as lifestyle, which plays a bigger risk than the month you were born in.