[sakai]

Anybody know anything about VT health stats? I'm struck by the fact that it:

* Has the lowest influenza/pneumonia rate (7.9)

* Has the lowest nephritis rate (6.7)

* Is in the "really low" rate color for HIV and homicides*

* But has the highest Parkinson's rate (9.6)

What's a contributing factor for Parkinson's?

* Edit: That appears to be the "no data" color actually. I just assumed it was very low because VT has few homicides (1.4 / 100k residents average rate for the past 3 years, or about 10 homicides annually)

[ronnier]

From Wikipedia, Vermont is 98.12% white. Many statistics correlate with demographics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont#Race_and_gender