[Acb-diabetics] southern states have highest degree of fatness

Sat Oct 10 17:06:22 GMT 2009

Southern States Have the Most Type 2s  

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Southern States Have the Most Type 2s 

The South, which swept a 2009 survey for fattest region, has achieved that
dubious honor again when it comes to prevalence of type 2 diabetes.
According

to a recent study published in Population Health Metrics, it's the region
with the highest percentage of type 2 diabetes when both diagnosed and
undiagnosed

cases are included. Mississippi is at the very top of the heap, followed by
West Virginia, Louisiana, Texas, South Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia (15.8

to 16.6 percent for men and 12.4 to 14.8 percent for women). 

The  lowest prevalence of type 2 is found in the Northern  plains, the
Northeast, and the Midwest. Of individual states, Vermont, Minnesota,
Montana, and

Colorado have the lowest prevalence (11.0 to 12.2 percent for men and 7.3 to
8.4 percent for women). The prevalence of diabetes in the U.S. as a whole

is 13.7 percent among men and 11.7 percent among women 30 years or older. 

When the research group Trust for America's Health reported on the nation's
state of plumpitude in 2009, the results were remarkably similar.
Mississippi

took the cake as the fattest state in the nation for the fifth year in a
row. The four states with rates of obesity above 30 percent included not
only

Mississippi (32.5 percent), but also Alabama (31.2 percent), West Virginia
(31.1 percent), and Tennessee (30.2 percent). Eight of the 10 states with
the

highest percentage of obese adults were in the South. Colorado had the
lowest percentage of obese adults at 18.9 percent. 