SOURCE
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey Data. Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004.
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Rhonda McBride (Anchorage, Alaska) 6th June 2006 |
I wonder what communities were used to come up with the Alaska numbers. Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau are Alaska's urban centers. Those communities probably have better oral health. Alaska's rural villages have rampant tooth decay. Adults have twice the rate of caries compared to the rest of the nation. In children, five times more. Were village numbers included? Given the rate of tooth decay in rural Alaska, I would think Alaska would be higher on your list. Thankyou |
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Tom Judd (Provo, UT) 7th June 2006 |
Glad I live in Utah. I'm surprised to see us at the bottom of the list since we do not have fluoridated water in this state. With some work, maybe we can beat those snooty New Englanders in Connecticut, with their perfect teeth. |
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Alex Reynolds (Philadelphia, PA) 7th June 2006 |
I wish there was a way to cross-reference this against income, infant mortality and methamphetamine abuse or arrest rates ("meth mouth"). Still, an interesting survey and fodder for easy laughs at Red states... |
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Staff Editor 8th June 2006 |
Staff response to Alex Reynolds, comment posted on 2006-06-07 13:36:24 Alex: You can easily correlate this statistic with any others in the database, as well as view two statistics as a scatterplot. Click on correlations on the upper part of the graph, or use the advanced blue form at the top of the page to select two statistics for a scatterplot. |
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Kyle (Oregon) 8th June 2006 |
Rhonda, the majority of the population is always going to reside in the urban centers. That's going to skew the numbers greatly. It's not like we're talking teeth loss per square mile here. |
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Mr. Bubble (Mass) 8th June 2006 |
Interesting to see correlations between this stat, obesity levels and physical exercise. Obesity rate Physical exercise So should we still say it's a stereotype that the South is full of fat people with nasty grins? |
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Staff Editor 8th June 2006 |
Staff response to Mr. Bubble, comment posted on 2006-06-08 10:38:55 For those interested, Here is a scatterplot for toothless residents and obesity levels. |
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Marsha (California) 9th June 2006 |
I have lived in California for several years but I am originally from Louisiana. (I also lived in Connecticut for a while.) For all you prejudiced people out there who think of it as a by-product of 'living in the south' or being from 'a red state', let me just say it is all about the money. The states at the top are some of the poorest in the nation. There is high unemployment. Those that have jobs often do not have dental insurance. If they do have dental insurance, it is usually not very good insurance. I am so glad that some people find poverty amusing. So much for "it's what's on the inside that counts." |
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Jeremy (WV) 13th June 2006 |
WV takes the cake(pun intended) in most of the health categories, but in response to Mr. Bubbles...to say that the South is full of fat people is disingenuous. As if New England doesn't have its share of fat asses. The whole USA is huge. If you look, Colorado has the lowest obesity rate at 14%. That's still higher than the average obesity rate of the entire European union...which has 150 million more people than the United States. That's not even mentioning China, Japan, and many nations of Africa that have obesity rates hovering at, or below 5%. To say that oh..well they're very underdeveloped, all I say to that is, look at Japan. Japan has one of the highest GDP's per capita. So before you start lambasting an entire region of your own country, take your head out of your ass and look at the 'big' picture. |
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Nicole Hart (CT) 20th June 2006 |
Clearly there are many factors contributing to the results of this study. But if both "sides", northern and southern, would simply acknowledge their shortcomings and lose some of the pride, we might be able to effectively address some of the problems faced by each region. In the south I would think education, health, and poverty are among the main concerns. In the north, our problems are related to overpopulation (ie. crime, polution, etc). If this is a source of embarrassment for either side, GOOD, it should be.... |
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Paul Burnett (Alameda, CA) 24th June 2006 |
Take a look at http://www.paulburnett.com/toothless.htm It's the same data set, except color-coded to show which states voted for Kerry or Bush in the 2004 presidential election. Look toward the bottom... While it doesn't look as "too good to be true" as the similar graph that came out after the 2004 presidential election sorting states by IQ and color-coding them red or blue - this one is not bogus. See http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/stateiq.asp |
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Staff Editor 26th June 2006 |
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Toothless wonder (Texas) 2nd July 2008 |
How can there be 52 "states"? The chart includes Puerto Rico, DC and the US Virgin Islands. Shouldn't that total 53? |
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Megaman (Ohio) 10th July 2008 |
If you notice, there's a note at the bottom of the chart that says "No data available for Hawaii". That's why there are only 52. |
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