Cardiovascular Disease
Risk Behaviors and Risk Factors

Clicking on the links below will take you to various websites with tables and reports on the major risk factors for heart disease and stroke.

Download: Summary Table of Risk Behaviors and Risk Factors in Minnesota
(pdf 67 kb/1 page)

Cigarette Smoking

BRFSS: Prevalence of Current Smokers in Minnesota

Minnesota Department of Health Tobacco Prevention and Control

Reports and Fact Sheets

 

Physical Activity

BRFSS: Prevalence of Physical Inactivity in Minnesota

Fact Sheet: Minnesota Department of Health: physical activity in youth fact sheet (pdf)

Minnesota Department of Health, Minnesota Department of Education, Coordinated School Health Report: Health and Physical Education in Schools, 2002 (pdf)

Nutrition

BRFSS: Prevalence of Not Enough Daily Fruits and Vegetable Consumption in Minnesota

Overweight and Obesity

BRFSS: Prevalence of Obesity in Minnesota, Prevalence of Overweight in Minnesota

Overweight prevalence in low-income (WIC) children: Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System (PedNSS) 2002

High Blood Pressure

BRFSS: Prevalence of adults who have not had their blood pressure checked in the last two years (screening)

BRFSS: Prevalence of adults who report that they have been told by a doctor that they have hypertension

High Cholesterol

BRFSS: Prevalence of adults who have not had their cholesterol checked in the last five years (screening)

BRFSS: Prevalence of adults who have been told by a doctor that they have high blood cholesterol

Diabetes

Minnesota Diabetes Program

Diabetes in Minnesota Report

Diabetes Fact Sheet (pdf)

 

This page was last updated on December 29, 2010

Updated December 29, 2010