Heart disease is twice as prevalent in poorer states

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A recent report show that heart disease is twice as prevalent in poorer states and with those who did not finish high school. Reuters said Thursday that a survey conducted by federal researchers found the evidence in their recent state-by-state evaluation.

In the survey, 6.5% of the respondents polled reported serious chest pain known as Angina, heart attacks, or had heart disease. 4% had reported having a heart attack.

According to Reuters, “The lowest rate of heart attacks was in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a territory in the Caribbean, where just 2.1 percent of people said they had ever had a heart attack. The worst was West Virginia, where 6.1 percent had. Heart disease was nearly twice as high in people who did not finish high school -- a 9.8 percent rate -- compared with 5 percent rate for college graduates.”

Mostly Rural states such as Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kentucky reported a higher percentage rate of heart attack( OK-5%, MIS and KEN-6%). "Many of the states with the highest prevalence were clustered in the lower Mississippi and Ohio River valleys, areas that have been documented previously as having high proportions of residents with heart-disease risk factors and high heart-disease mortality," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told Reuters.

Heart disease has been the leading cause of death in America for the last 80 years. Heart disease is also a major expense in healthcare spending, costing Americans over 151.6 billion of direct and indirect costs in 2007. This report is aimed to help states be able to recognize where the current shortcomings of their healthcare system are and find a better plan for their region to strengthen heart disease prevention.

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