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Brian Vastag

JAMA. 2001;286:1829.

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Americans who live in the suburbs fare significantly better than those dwelling in most rural and central-city areas, concludes Health, United States, 2001, a comprehensive report on geographic health disparities from the National Center for Health Statistics. The entire 460-page report, drawing on data from 1996-1999, is online at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/. Among the findings:

• Those in rural areas are more likely to smoke than their urban and suburban counterparts. The disparity is greatest in adolescents; 19% of those in rural areas smoke, while 11% in cities smoke.
  
• Obesity is most prevalent among women in rural counties.
  
• More than 50% of those living in the rural South and in the central areas of large Northeastern cities almost never exercise.
  
• The death rate of working-aged adults is lowest in the suburbs, as is the infant mortality rate. Central cities in the Northeast and Midwest have an infant mortality rate 45% . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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