Health and Nutrition of Cedar Crest, OK Residents

Diet Behavior & Nutrition

Fifty percent of Cedar Crest residents report that their diet is generally healthy. People here have milk to drink or on their cereal 16 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 three 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. People here eat two "ready to eat" foods such as salads, soups, chicken, sandwiches and cooked vegetables per month. They also eat five frozen meals or frozen pizzas on average monthly.

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Oral Health

The average Cedar Crest 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). Twenty six percent of people living here 30 years of age and older, are embarrassed because of their teeth, mouth or dentures. Nine percent think they might have gum disease (might have swollen gums, receding gums, sore or infected gums or loose teeth). Cedar Crest residents rate the overall health of their teeth and gums on average at 45 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 three days per week. They also use mouthwash or other dental rinse products to treat dental disease or dental problems an average of two days per week. The average person living here (including children) has 25 teeth.

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Weight

The average height of Cedar Crest residents 16 years and older is 67 inches. The average weight is 189 pounds. Their average BMI (Body Mass Index) is 31. Forty eight percent of people living here are obese. Sixty four percent have ever been obese. Thirty six percent have ever tried to lose weight.

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Drug Use

Seventy three percent of Cedar Crest residents have ever used marijuana or hashish. Fifty percent of people living here have ever used cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin or methamphetamine. Forty nine percent have ever used any form of cocaine, such as powder, 'crack', 'free base', and coca paste. Two percent have ever used heroin. Thirty six percent have ever used methamphetamines.

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Diabetes

Fourteen percent of people living in Cedar Crest have ever been told by a doctor or health professional that they have diabetes. Thirty eight percent of people had a blood test for high sugar or diabetes within the past three years. Four percent of city residents are currently taking insulin.

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Kidney Conditions-Urology

Cedar Crest 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

Fifteen percent of Cedar Crest residents above the age of 40 have problems with their ability to smell, such as not being able to smell things or things not smelling the way they are supposed to. Forty seven percent of people above the age of 40 have ever had wisdom teeth removed. Twelve percent have ever had their tonsils removed. Eight percent have lost consciousness because of a head injury. Sixteen percent have ever had a broken nose or other serious injury to face or skull. Forty percent have had two or more sinus infections.

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Health Insurance

Sixty eight percent of people living in Cedar Crest are covered by health insurance or some other kind of health care plan.

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Blood Pressure & Cholesterol

Eight percent of people living in Cedar Crest have been ever told by a doctor or other health professional that they had hypertension (also called high blood pressure). Eighteen percent of people take their blood pressure at home. Forty one percent of people in Cedar Crest frequently check their blood cholesterol. Twenty three 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

Twenty two percent of people living in Cedar Crest use sunscreen.

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Mental Health

Twelve percent of Cedar Crest residents 18 years old and older have usually little interest or pleasure in doing things. Sixteen percent often feel down, depressed, or hopeless. Twenty eight percent of people living here have trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleep too much. Fifty five percent of people often feel tired or have little energy. Thirty seven percent are bothered by poor appetite or overeating. Thirteen percent often feel badly about themselves, that they are a failure or have let themselves or their families down. Thirteen percent have trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching TV. Thirty percent of people living here move or speak so slowly that other people could have noticed, or the opposite - being so fidgety or restless that they have been moving around a lot more than usual.

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Prescription Medications

Cedar Crest residents on average take one prescription medicines.

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Alcohol use

Eighty eight percent of people living in Cedar Crest have at least one alcoholic drink per month. Seven percent of people living here do not drink alcohol at all. People living here drink alcohol 4.5 days per month on average. They have 10.8 drinks per week. On average people living here have 5 or more drinks on 47 days a year.

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Sexual Behavior

Hundred percent of Cedar Crest residents 18 years and older have ever had vaginal, anal or oral sex. Ninety five percent of males have ever had vaginal sex with a woman. Eighty nine percent have ever performed oral sex on a woman. Sixty four percent have ever had anal sex with a woman. Thirteen percent of males in Cedar Crest have ever had any kind of sex with a man, including oral or anal. Hundred percent of females have ever had vaginal sex with a man. Ninety five percent have ever performed oral sex on a man. Twenty percent have ever had anal sex. Nine percent of females have ever had any kind of sex with a woman. People in Cedar Crest were 16 years old on average when they had sex for the first time. The average man in his lifetime had any kind of sex with 63 women. He has vaginal sex with 51 women. People living here were on average 21 years old when they first performed oral sex on a woman. In their lifetime they performed oral sex on average on eight women. People in Cedar Crest were 18 years old on average when they first performed oral sex on a man. Twenty eight percent of people use protection, like a condom or dental dam, while performing oral sex. The average person in Cedar Crest has vaginal or anal sex 62 times a year. Thirty percent have sex without using a condom. Females in Cedar Crest 18 years and older have had any kind of sex with seven men on average. They have had four male vaginal sex partners in their lifetimes. Seventy five percent of men 18 years old and older are circumcised.

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Pesticide Use

Fourteen percent of households in Cedar Crest use chemical products in their homes to control fleas, roaches, ants, termites or other insects. Three percent use chemical products in their lawns or gardens to kill weeds.

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Sleep Disorders

Cedar Crest residents 16 years and older usually get seven hours of sleep at night on weekdays or workdays. Nineteen percent of them have trouble sleeping.

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Smoking-Cigarette Use

Forty seven percent of Cedar Crest residents currently smoke cigarettes.

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Physical Activity

Twenty three percent of Cedar Crest residents' work involve vigorous-intensity activity that causes large increases in breathing or heart rate, like carrying or lifting heavy loads, digging or construction work for at least 10 minutes continuously. Forty 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 six percent walk or bicycle for at least 10 minutes continuously to get to and from places. Twenty one percent do any vigorous-intensity sports, fitness or recreational activities that cause large increases in breathing or heart rate like running or basketball for at least 10 minutes continuously. Sixty four 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 three 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 1.4 hours per day.

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Medical Conditions

Five percent of Cedar Crest residents have ever been told by a doctor or other health professional that they had asthma. Three percent of people living here has anemia, sometimes called "tired blood" or "low blood". Thirty one percent are overweight. Eight 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. Thirty percent have trouble seeing, even when wearing glasses or contact lenses. Nineteen percent of people 20 and older have arthritis. Four percent have coronary heart disease. Five percent have ever had a heart attack, also called myocardial infarction. Two percent have been ever told by a doctor or other health professional that they had a stroke. Five percent have ever had emphysema. Five percent have ever had cancer or a malignancy of any kind.

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Reproductive Health

Seventy six percent of births in Cedar Crest were vaginal deliveries. Twenty four percent of deliveries were cesarean. 100.0 percent of deliveries resulted in live births. Fifty one percent of pregnancies resulted in a delivery. Seventy nine percent of women breastfeed their children. Seventy percent have ever taken birth control pills for any reason.

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Current Health Status

People living in Cedar Crest report their general health condition on average at 53 percent. Six percent of them donate blood. Excluding tests they have had as part of blood donations, 41 percent of Cedar Crest residents have ever had their blood tested for the AIDS virus infection. Eight percent of people living in Cedar Crest are left-handed.

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Consumer Behavior

People in Cedar Crest spend $437 per month on average on food for their families at supermarkets or grocery stores. This is 24 percent of their income. The average family in Cedar Crest spends $111 on food at other stores monthly. This is five percent of their income. They spend $81 on eating out, including cafeterias at work or at school or on vending machines. This is five percent of their income. They also spend $59 monthly on carried out or delivered food. This is one percent of their income.

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Audiometry

People living in Cedar Crest report their general condition of hearing on average at 81 percent. Eighty four 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. Ninety nine percent of people can hear a normal voice across a quiet room. Twenty percent of Cedar Crest population have been bothered by ringing, roaring or buzzing in their ears or head. Sixty one 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. Twenty two percent of people in Cedar Crest had off-work exposure to loud noise.

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Preventive Aspirin Use

Thirty percent of Cedar Crest residents 40 and older take a low-dose aspirin each day to prevent heart attacks, strokes or cancer.

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Physical Functioning

Ten percent of Cedar Crest 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. Fourteen percent are limited in the kind or amount of work they can do because of physical, mental or emotional problems. Six percent have difficulty walking without using any special equipment.

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