Live in West Virginia or Kentucky? You're more likely than most Americans to die of heart disease, cancer or a drug overdose.
Residents of Arkansas, Louisiana, and
Mississippi are most likely to succumb to diabetes, while people in the
Rocky Mountain states of Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado have lower rates of
both cancer and heart disease.
A new county-by-county breakdown of what kills people in the U.S. finds big differences.
Perhaps most startling, death rates from drug
overdoses shot up by 1,000 percent in clusters of counties in six
states: Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, western Pennsylvania,
and east-central Missouri.
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