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Rural residents have 19% higher risk of heart failure than urban counterparts

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11 pointsBrajeshwar6 comments

Not surprising to me.

Rural people have overwhelmingly larger waist to height ratios than urban populations.

Grew up in one of the states studied in an exurb, lots of family on farms. Everyone I know more than 30 min from a sizable downtown is as fat as can be.

https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/division-information/media...

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/08/7213737...

What is surprising are the diabetes stats - there’s actually a case to be made that you’re more likely to be diabetic in an urban area. Maybe some combination of stress/sleep/drinking/smoking?

Surprising -- until you look at what they eat. Rural people often eat /food/. They may eat too much, with too many calories and too much fat, but it is food. Eggs, bacon, pancakes, sausage, gravy, steak, potatoes, corn, beans (geez I'm getting hungry).

City people might eat the same calories, but it's hyperprocessed HFCS-based "food".

Where do you get this information? As someone who has lived rural before going to a city I can assure you there is plenty of prepackaged junk to be found. Actually it wasn't until I got to a city that I had real access to high quality healthy food. Also the city has more opportunity for moving about. Even just going out to places gives more opportunities to walk and move yourself. Whereas being rural you just drive everywhere

I don't understand where this idea could have come from. Both sets have access to junk food, and you can buy "real" food in cities of course.

I didn't see that age was taken into account in the article. Simply says "adults".

Many rural areas have young people that leave for better opportunities to urban areas, leaving the age distribution skewed older.

Generally rural residents also have a higher chance of fatal wildlife attacks, too. Probably also "structural racism"

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