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Columbus, Ohio is Below Average!  
INFORMATIVE 

Tags: health, Columbus, Ohio, risk

The CDC (Center for Disease Control) regularly does a risk assessment survey of the large metro areas and below are the findings for the 2004 Columbus, Ohio MMSA compared to Ohio and the overall US:

	A lower percentage of adults reporting overall health as fair or poor
	A lower percentage of adults reporting doing no leisure time exercise or physical activity in the last 30 days
	A lower percentage of adults told by doctors that they have diabetes
	The number of adults aged 65 or older reporting not having a flu shot within the last 12 months was not reported.
	A higher percentage of adults reporting having smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and currently smoke
	A higher percentage of adults reporting having five or more drinks on occasion, one or more time in the past month
	A higher percentage of adults reporting Body Mass Index greater than or equal to 30.0

Lister: brittany
Source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

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