Health and Nutrition of Addison, AL Residents

Diet Behavior & Nutrition

Forty six percent of Addison residents report that their diet is generally healthy. People here have milk to drink or on their cereal 17 times per month. This includes chocolate and other flavored milks, as well as hot cocoa made with milk, and does not count small amounts of milk added to coffee or tea. People living here eat an average of two meals (breakfasts, lunches or dinners) per week that were prepared away from home in places such as restaurants, fast food places, food stands, grocery stores or from vending machines. They get one of these meals from a fast-food or pizza place.

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Oral Health

The average Addison resident last visited a dentist two years ago (including all types of dentists, such as, orthodontists, oral surgeons, and all other dental specialists, as well as dental hygienists). Addison residents rate the overall health of their teeth and gums on average at 25 percent. People living here aged 30 years and older, aside from brushing their teeth with toothbrush, use dental floss or any other device that clean between teeth on average two days per week. They also use mouthwash or other dental rinse products to treat dental disease or dental problems an average of five days per week. The average person living here (including children) has 13 teeth.

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Weight

The average height of Addison residents 16 years and older is 62 inches. The average weight is 148 pounds. Their average BMI (Body Mass Index) is 26. Twenty five percent have ever been obese. Thirty three percent have ever tried to lose weight.

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Drug Use

Fifty three percent of Addison residents have ever used marijuana or hashish. Thirty five percent of people living here have ever used cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin or methamphetamine. Thirty five percent have ever used any form of cocaine, such as powder, 'crack', 'free base', and coca paste.

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Diabetes

Fifty eight percent of people had a blood test for high sugar or diabetes within the past three years.

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Kidney Conditions-Urology

Addison residents 20 years and older on average get up to urinate one time at night (from time they go to bed at night until the time they get up in the morning).

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Taste & Smell

Twenty five percent of people above the age of 40 have ever had wisdom teeth removed. Twenty five percent have ever had their tonsils removed. Eight percent have lost consciousness because of a head injury. Sixty seven percent have had two or more sinus infections.

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Health Insurance

Hundred percent of people living in Addison are covered by health insurance or some other kind of health care plan.

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Blood Pressure & Cholesterol

Seventeen percent of people living in Addison have been ever told by a doctor or other health professional that they had hypertension (also called high blood pressure). Thirty three percent of people take their blood pressure at home. Seventy five percent of people in Addison frequently check their blood cholesterol. Fifty percent of people have ever been told by a doctor or other health professional that their blood cholesterol level was high.

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Dermatology

Thirty one percent of people living in Addison use sunscreen.

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Mental Health

Seventeen percent of Addison residents 18 years old and older have usually little interest or pleasure in doing things. Sixty seven percent often feel down, depressed, or hopeless. Thirty three percent of people living here have trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleep too much. Sixty seven percent of people often feel tired or have little energy. Thirty three percent are bothered by poor appetite or overeating.

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Prescription Medications

Addison residents on average take two prescription medicines.

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Alcohol use

Hundred percent of people living in Addison have at least one alcoholic drink per month. People living here drink alcohol 2.1 days per month on average. They have 2.0 drinks per week.

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Sexual Behavior

Ninety nine percent of Addison residents 18 years and older have ever had vaginal, anal or oral sex. Ninety eight percent of females have ever had vaginal sex with a man. Ninety two percent have ever performed oral sex on a man. People in Addison were 17 years old on average when they had sex for the first time. People living here were on average 23 years old when they first performed oral sex on a woman. People in Addison were 20 years old on average when they first performed oral sex on a man. They performed oral sex on average on four men in their lifetime. Seven percent of people use protection, like a condom or dental dam, while performing oral sex. The average person in Addison has vaginal or anal sex 23 times a year. Females in Addison 18 years and older have had any kind of sex with nine men on average.

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Sleep Disorders

Addison residents 16 years and older usually get six hours of sleep at night on weekdays or workdays. Fifty percent of them have trouble sleeping.

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Physical Activity

Thirty three percent of people do moderate-intensity activities at work that cause small increases in breathing or heart rate such as brisk walking or carrying light loads for at least 10 minutes continuously. Forty two percent walk or bicycle for at least 10 minutes continuously to get to and from places. Seventy five percent do any moderate-intensity sports, fitness or recreational activities that cause a small increase in breathing or heart rate such as brisk walking, bicycling, swimming or golf for at least 10 minutes continuously. People living here spend five hours sitting on a typical day (this includes sitting at work, at home, getting to and from places, or with friends, including time spent sitting at a desk, traveling in a car or bus, reading, playing cards, watching television or using a computer). They usually sit and watch TV or videos for about two hours per day. They use a computer or play computer games (including Playstation, Nintendo DS, or other portable video games) outside of work or school for 0.6 hours per day.

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Medical Conditions

Fifty percent are overweight. Thirteen percent of people 60 years and older have difficulties in thinking or remembering that can make a big difference in everyday activities (this does not refer to occasionally forgetting your keys or the name of someone you recently met). This refers to things like confusion or memory loss that are happening more often or getting worse. Seventeen percent of people living in Addison have ever received a blood transfusion. Thirty three percent have trouble seeing, even when wearing glasses or contact lenses. Twenty five percent of people 20 and older have arthritis. Eight percent have another thyroid problem. Eight percent have ever had cancer or a malignancy of any kind.

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Reproductive Health

Sixty seven percent of births in Addison were vaginal deliveries. Thirty three percent of deliveries were cesarean. 99.9 percent of deliveries resulted in live births. Sixty three percent of pregnancies resulted in a delivery. Twenty two percent of women breastfeed their children. Seventeen percent of women in Addison have ever had a hysterectomy, including a partial hysterectomy (that is, surgery to remove their uterus or womb). Seventeen percent had both of their ovaries removed (either when they had their uterus removed or at another time). Fifty percent have ever taken birth control pills for any reason.

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Current Health Status

People living in Addison report their general health condition on average at 46 percent. Excluding tests they have had as part of blood donations, 33 percent of Addison residents have ever had their blood tested for the AIDS virus infection.

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Consumer Behavior

People in Addison spend $331 per month on average on food for their families at supermarkets or grocery stores. This is 14 percent of their income. The average family in Addison spends $154 on food at other stores monthly. This is three percent of their income. They spend $128 on eating out, including cafeterias at work or at school or on vending machines. This is five percent of their income. They also spend $10 monthly on carried out or delivered food.

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Audiometry

People living in Addison report their general condition of hearing on average at 72 percent. Seventy five percent of them can usually hear and understand, without the use of a hearing aid or any other listening devices, what a person says without seeing his or her face if that person whispers to them from across a quiet room. Eighty three percent of people can hear a normal voice across a quiet room. Seventeen percent of people living here have ever had a job where they were exposed to loud sounds or noise. Loud means so loud that they must speak in a raised voice to be heard.

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Preventive Aspirin Use

Twenty five percent of Addison residents 40 and older take a low-dose aspirin each day to prevent heart attacks, strokes or cancer.

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Physical Functioning

Twenty five percent of Addison residents 20 or older have limitations caused by a long-term physical, mental or emotional problems or illnesses keeping them from working at a job or business. Twenty five percent are limited in the kind or amount of work they can do because of physical, mental or emotional problems.

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