A Look at America's Health...

The graphs below were taken from the WHO's Global InfoBase in search of health stats for the USA in the past few years. My blog this week is on Coronary Heart Disease, these graphs give some ideas to the current state of the USA's heart health.

2003 Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)

2004 HERITAGE Family Study

Body Mass Index takes your height and weight and calculates an index regarding safe health - America's BMI is in an unsafe catagory.

2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
As age rises in the USA, so does Blood Pressure.

Check out your countries stats by clicking on this link http://www.who.int/infobase/report.aspx