Heart disease is twice as prevalent in poorer states

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 -- comp View the rest of this article