Dutch researchers have analyzed 300,000 people.
Whether you are keen on astrology or not, the signs of the zodiac would not be so harmless … They could give indications on our personality and on certain aspects of our health, in particular weaknesses in the heart. This is in any case what a scientific study published in the journal suggests Value in health.
Dutch researchers from the University of Groningue analyzed the data of the 300,000 patients from a large medical prescription database in the Netherlands. All these patients were followed for a year, from their birthday and all took medication for one of the following 4 health problems: cardiovascular diseases, depression, erectile dysfunction in men and fertility problems in women. At the end of their analysis, the researchers realized that the astrological sign had no impact on erection or depression problems.
However, the results showed that people born under the sign of Aquarius (people born between January 20 and February 18) were less likely to suffer from cardiovascular diseases compared to other signs, while patients born under the sign of Sagittarius (people born between November 22 and December 21) were most likely to suffer from cardiovascular diseases (10 times more than sides). Scorpions (people born between October 23 and November 21) also had a slight over-risk of cardiac vulnerability. Nothing significant for the other 9 astrological signs.
Even if the study associated the sagittarius with a heart risk, Dutch researchers say that it is only a statistic without medical or biological link. According to them: statistical correlations can arise by chance when analyzing very large databases (as is the case in this study) and this cannot make it possible to draw clinical or diagnostic conclusions on bases as arbitrary as astrology. Rather, they advance the track of seasonal factors which can influence fetal development and heart risk rather than astrological aspect. Other research must support these causal links.
