Sooner State Health Update: New Numbers

By Otto Harrison
 

Oklahoma continues to have a high obesity rate, with over 875,000 adults considered obese in the Sooner state. Not only that, more than 630,000 adults still smoke in Oklahoma, according to recent data complied by the Centers for Disease Control.

In the past two years, public health funding went down by 40 percent from $113 to $80 per person, CDC figures show.

In the past five years, the rate of preventable hospitalizations decreased from 95.9 to 76.9 discharges per 1,000 Medicare enrollees, though Oklahoma still ranks poorly among the states on this measure.

In the past 10 years, the rate of cardiovascular deaths decreased from 402.2 to 330.5 deaths per 100,000 population. 

According to the CDC ,the death rate is 973.8 per 100,000 populations.