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Table 3 Rankings of highest at-risk municipalities for each disease outcome

From: Small-area estimation for public health surveillance using electronic health record data: reducing the impact of underrepresentation

Rank

Municipality

2012–2016 ACS Population

Prevalence

Confidence Interval

 

(a)

Top 5 MA asthma-risk municipalities by Wilson lower bound

1

Revere

42,125

0.170

(0.167, 0.174)

2

Orange

6061

0.167

(0.157, 0.176)

3

Malden

48,521

0.155

(0.151, 0.158)

4

Chelsea

27,849

0.149

(0.145, 0.154)

5

North Adams

12,390

0.145

(0.139, 0.151)

 

(b)

Top 5 MA diabetes-risk municipalities by Wilson lower bound

1

Brockton

67,992

0.189

(0.186, 0.192)

2

Everett

33,062

0.188

(0.183, 0.192)

3

Lawrence

55,244

0.178

(0.175, 0.182)

4

Chelsea

27,849

0.174

(0.170, 0.178)

5

New Bedford

71,200

0.171

(0.168, 0.174)

 

(c)

Top 5 MA hypertension-risk municipalities by Wilson lower bound

1

Lenox

4094

0.435

(0.420, 0.450)

 

(d)

Top 5 MA obesity-risk municipalities by Wilson lower bound

1

Lawrence

55,244

0.329

(0.326, 0.333)

2

Chelsea

27,849

0.324

(0.318, 0.329)

3

Randolph

26,684

0.304

(0.298, 0.309)

4

Brockton

67,992

0.301

(0.297, 0.304)

 

(e)

Top 5 MA smoking-risk municipalities by Wilson lower bound

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