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@abctax55 Live long and prosper! But I just saw an interesting stat about your state:
Roughly 1 in 100 Americans die every year. West Virginia has the highest death rate by state: 1,462.7 per 100,000 residents. Alabama has the highest death rate by a single cause: Nearly 300 residents per 100,000 die of heart disease every year — but that number is affected by the relatively advanced average age of the state’s population. Once you adjust for that, the heart-unhealthiest state is Mississippi at 245.6 deaths per 100,000, and the heart-healthiest is @IronMan 's Minnesota at 118.
Which, of course led me to Google for this information: The ten states with the lowest life expectancies, in order, are Mississippi (74.6), West Virginia (74.9), Alabama (74.9), Kentucky (75.1), Arkansas (75.4), Oklahoma (75.5), Louisiana (75.5), Tennessee (76.1), South Carolina (76.2), and Ohio (76.6).