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Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

Heart Attack Rates Double in Low-Wellbeing Metro Areas

Author:     Dan Witters
Source:     The Gallup Organization
Publication Date:     22-Jul-13
 Link: Heart Attack Rates Double in Low-Wellbeing Metro Areas
Stephan:   Here is yet further evidence in support of my Social Values, Social Wellness trend assessment. Living in states controlled by the Theocratic Right is, as this story shows, dangerous to a person's health. View and export complete wellbeing data by metro area using Gallup's U.S. City Wellbeing Tracking interactive.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans living in the nation’s metropolitan areas with the lowest wellbeing are about twice as likely to report having a heart attack than are residents living in the metros with the highest wellbeing. An average of 5.5% of Americans living in the 10 metro areas with the lowest wellbeing in the U.S. report having had a heart attack, compared with 2.8% of residents in the 10 metro areas with the highest levels of wellbeing.

Heart Attack Rates in 10 MSAs with Highest and Lowest Wellbeing

These findings are based on an analysis of more than 230,000 interviews across 190 metropolitan areas conducted throughout 2012 with adults aged 18 and older, collected as part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.

The metros with the highest Well-Being Index scores in 2012 include Lincoln, Neb.; Boulder, Colo.; and Provo-Orem, Utah. Those with the lowest Well-Being Index scores in 2012 include Charleston, W.Va.; Huntington-Ashland, W.Va.-Ky.-Ohio; and Mobile, Ala. Out of the approximately 3 million adult residents living in the 10 metro areas with the lowest wellbeing, about 161,000 have experienced a heart attack. If these cities experienced the same rate of heart attacks as what is found in the 10 metro areas with the highest […]

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