What brought them together was anger and frustration over the state's recently released maps of cancer incidence county by county.
The most salient differences between the women from the high breast cancer incidence county and SES-matched comparison group were in reproductive factors.
To investigate whether lung cancer clusters in families in a high incidence county of China, an analysis was conducted using data on domestic fuel history and tobacco use for family members of 740 deceased lung cancer probands and 740 controls (probands' spouses).
The number of high-incidence counties increased more than three-fold to 182 counties by 2008 to 2012.
And in north-central states during the same time period, the number of high-incidence counties increased 2.5-fold, from 22 to 78, according to a 2015 analysis by the CDC.
For this analysis, high-incidence counties had a relative risk of >2.0.
Risk for encounters with infected ticks, even within high-incidence counties, is influenced by human behavior and varying landscape characteristics that impact tick abundance and small mammal species composition.
Furthermore, a substantially higher risk exists for many subgroups, including residents of high-incidence counties, middle-aged and older persons, pregnant women, black residents, and those with HIV infection.
In each period, 2 major foci of largely contiguous counties met the high-incidence county designation: 1 in the northeastern United States and 1 in the north-central United States.
Thus, most of the census tracts in these seemingly high incidence risk counties actually had much lower incidence risks of LACV infection.
Interestingly, the assessment of the spatial patterns at the census tract level using SEB smoothed rates indicated that within the high incidence risk counties presented in Figure 2, only a few census tracts displayed a high incidence risk of LACV infection (Figure 3).
