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Where You Live May Determine How You Die [Consumer.HealthDay.com]

 

People along the southern stretch of the Mississippi River are more likely to die from heart problems than anywhere else in the United States.

Suicide and homicide will claim the most lives in the southwestern part of the country.

Deaths from chronic respiratory diseases are greatest in eastern Kentucky and western West Virginia.

And mental and substance abuse disorders cause the most deaths in Alaska, eastern Arizona, New Mexico, eastern Kentucky and southwestern West Virginia.

What causes a person's death depends in large part on where they spend their lives, concludes a new county-level analysis of U.S. mortality data.

Armed with this sort of information, county and city health departments can focus their efforts on the specific problems affecting their communities, said lead researcher Ali Mokdad. He is a professor with the department of global health at the University of Washington, in Seattle.



[For more of this story, written by Dennis Thompson, go to https://consumer.healthday.com...ie-study-717732.html]

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