Map from CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html
Look carefully at this astounding GIS rendition of American diabetes, for a moment.
Geographically, it is concentrated it is in the Southeast. There's a huge patch in northwest Arizona and scattered counties throughout the country.
Notice how high the prevalence ran in these areas -- 10.6% of people over the age of 20!
Now just remember how diabetes not only correlates with obesity and poverty, but create emergency room situations... is there something, 1000s of pages of laws perhaps, that need to change?
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The Hopi and Navajo reservations cover that large patch in northeastern AZ. I looked up a map of reservations in the US (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bia-map-indian-reservations-usa.png) and, as you can see, many (but not all!) of the dark patches in the west correspond with the locations of the reservations.
Good point - thanks for the link to the map. Also, aren't the reservations in AZ / NM a checkerboard of res. and non-res. land?
I thought the reservations were fairly continuous. If they are broken up, I'd imagine it's forest service or some other sort of government land.
I have heard people use "Checkerboard" in reference to the mix of land ownership in the eastern Navajo lands / NW New Mexico, which includes reservation land, BLM land, and private land:
http://www.dinehbikeyah.org/Maps/Eastern.jpg
The western parts of the Navajo Nation are more contiguous:
http://www.dinehbikeyah.org/Maps.htm
indirectly:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1424311/
:)
Are these statistics for type 1 or type 2 diabebtes?
Hi Shwet -
Good question. The maps do not differentiate between type I and type II diabetes.
I checked the FAQ on CDC's website, where I got the maps:
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/DDT_STRS2/FAQ.aspx
Also, FYI, gestational diabetes not included.
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