Re: (no subject)

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>]

At 01:40 PM 9/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Otto:
>
>After I sent the previous message, I cam across a 1950-1980 Cancer Atlas
which
>shows: 
>
>for the 1950-59 period, 
>
>white males:  most of (northern) Arizona and a small area in southern
Arizona,
>Utah, northwestern Colorado, and (roughly) the northern and eastern half of
>Wyoming as "significantly high, but not in the highest 10%"; Nevada was
within
>the average range.
>
>white females: northern Arizona and almost all of Nevada are "significantly
>low", Utah and northwestern NM are  "significantly high, but not in the
>highest 10%", and CO & WY are within the average range
>
>for the 1960-69 period:
>
>white males: the "significantly high..." category remained the same in
Arizona
>(except for the small southern area which was in the "highest 10%"), remained
>the same in WY, and shrunk significantly in UT and CO.  
>
>White females:   Arizona was within the average range, except for two areas
>along the southern border which were in the "highest 10%" but NOT overlapping
>the similarly ranked area for males;  NV, UT, WY and western CO were all
>within the average range, and the northwestern NM are remained essentially
the
>same as in the previous period.  
>
>The time trend from 1950 to 1980 showed:
>
>for white males: AZ, NV, UT, CO, WY  within the average range of -7.6% over
>the 5 years; northwest NM showed an increasing rate significantly greater
than
>the US average.
> 
>for white females: AZ, NM, NV, and UT within the average range of -12.1% over
>the 5 years.  Northern and eastern WY showed an increasing rate significantly
>greater than the US average, while southwestern CO showed a decreasing rate
>significantly less than the US average.
>
>There is no clear pattern I can observe -- but I've been known to be somewhat
>nearsighted...
>
>Mort Goldman
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