Diabetes prevalence maps
The percentage of adult Americans diagnosed with diabetes has risen steadily for the past 20 years, up to 8 percent of the population in 2008. In some regions of the country, however, the rate is nearly twice that. Since 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have released estimates for each county, and mapping that data reveals that there are clusters in states like Alabama and Mississippi, where around one in seven adults is diabetic.
Maps and text from Slate, via Neatorama.
Huh. Interesting how it's prevalent in the South. Too much sweet tea, do you think? Or would an obesity map look identical?
ReplyDeleteIt coincides closely with a poverty map.
ReplyDeleteYep, poverty.
ReplyDeleteI bet some of those isolated rural Western red spots probably correspond with reservations as well.
Actually, it corresponds to being black, not income.
ReplyDeleteHere is a black map:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/mapGallery/images/black.jpg
and an income map:
http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2007/08/07/united-states-household-income-map/
and poverty map:
http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2007/08/11/united-states-poverty-map/
Sorry, I meant to add, being black or native American:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.census.gov/geo/www/mapGallery/images/americanindian.jpg
which explains the dark spots in eastern Arizona, Oklahoma and the Dakotas.