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Correlations Discovered Between Health Risks and Age, Income

The analysis shows how the pattern of income, obesity, poverty has a relationship with demographic factors and health risks for 50 states and the District of Columbia in the United States of America. Median age, household income, and poverty rates are plotted against the smoking, lack of healthcare, and obesity rates for each state or district.

Findings show that states or districts with lower income or higher poverty rates show higher rates of health risks. there is a positive correlation between the states or districts poverty rate (%), and the rate of risk factors % .