Diabetes Case Reports

Department of Health Sciences and Engineering, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Mississippi, USA

Publications

• Research Article   
  Distribution of Obesity-related Health Outcomes across the Urban-Rural Commuting Area in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Georgia
  Author(s): Roungu Ahmmad* and Fazlay Faruque
  
  Obesity-related chronic diseases are still major public health concerns in the United States of America, particularly in the south. The purpose of this study is to examine the association between obesity-related chronic diseases and rurality/urbanicity in the four Deep South states- Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia. We used publicly available Zip Code level approximations of USDA-developed RUCA Code for rurality designation and Zip Code level PLACES data developed by CDC for selected obesity-related health outcomes- Asthma, Obesity, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Coronary Heart Disease, Diabetes, High Cholesterol, Stroke and High Blood Pressure. This study employed the random forest method, partial least squares discriminant analysis and multinomial logistic regression to investigate the association between selected health outcomes and degrees of rurality. There are.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35841/2572-5629.23.8.148

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