Rural communities face higher rates of heart disease and risk factors

Rural Communities in the South Are the Most Vulnerable to Harmful Effects of Natural Hazards

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox.Natural disasters might strike indiscriminately, but the long term damage of extreme weather events isn’t felt evenly from place to place. This is something my colleague, Ilana Newman, and I discussed in last Thursday’s episode of Getaway, a Daily Yonder po…

Rural communities face higher rates of heart disease and risk factors

A research team funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) uncovered higher rates of heart disease and worse heart health affecting adults living in rural communities compared to urban areas and the factors that likely drive these differences.