Health and Nutrition of Coatesville, IN Residents

Diet Behavior & Nutrition

Forty seven percent of Coatesville residents report that their diet is generally healthy. People here have milk to drink or on their cereal 10 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 two of these meals from a fast-food or pizza place. They also eat five frozen meals or frozen pizzas on average monthly.

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Oral Health

The average Coatesville resident last visited a dentist three years ago (including all types of dentists, such as, orthodontists, oral surgeons, and all other dental specialists, as well as dental hygienists). Fifteen percent of people living here 30 years of age and older, are embarrassed because of their teeth, mouth or dentures. Twenty nine percent think they might have gum disease (might have swollen gums, receding gums, sore or infected gums or loose teeth). Coatesville residents rate the overall health of their teeth and gums on average at 44 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 four days per week. They also use mouthwash or other dental rinse products to treat dental disease or dental problems an average of three days per week. The average person living here (including children) has 25 teeth.

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Weight

The average height of Coatesville residents 16 years and older is 65 inches. The average weight is 172 pounds. Their average BMI (Body Mass Index) is 27. Sixteen percent of people living here are obese. Fifty three percent have ever been obese. Thirty three percent have ever tried to lose weight.

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Drug Use

Forty six percent of Coatesville residents have ever used marijuana or hashish.

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Diabetes

Fifty one percent of people had a blood test for high sugar or diabetes within the past three years. Two percent of city residents are currently taking insulin.

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Kidney Conditions-Urology

Coatesville 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

Fifty six percent of people above the age of 40 have ever had wisdom teeth removed. Twenty five percent have ever had their tonsils removed. Twenty seven percent have ever had a broken nose or other serious injury to face or skull. Twenty five percent have had two or more sinus infections.

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Health Insurance

Seventy three percent of people living in Coatesville are covered by health insurance or some other kind of health care plan.

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Blood Pressure & Cholesterol

Twenty percent of people take their blood pressure at home. Forty three percent of people in Coatesville frequently check their blood cholesterol. Nineteen 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 one percent of people living in Coatesville use sunscreen.

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Mental Health

Seventeen percent of Coatesville residents 18 years old and older have usually little interest or pleasure in doing things. Ten percent often feel down, depressed, or hopeless. Eighteen percent of people living here have trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleep too much. Forty nine percent of people often feel tired or have little energy. Seventeen percent are bothered by poor appetite or overeating. Ten percent often feel badly about themselves, that they are a failure or have let themselves or their families down. Seven 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

Coatesville residents on average take one prescription medicines.

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Alcohol use

Ninety two percent of people living in Coatesville have at least one alcoholic drink per month. Five percent of people living here do not drink alcohol at all. People living here drink alcohol 7.1 days per month on average. They have 4.1 drinks per week.

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Sexual Behavior

Ninety nine percent of Coatesville residents 18 years and older have ever had vaginal, anal or oral sex. Hundred percent of males have ever had vaginal sex with a woman. Ninety five percent have ever performed oral sex on a woman. Eighty one percent have ever had anal sex with a woman. Ninety six percent of females have ever had vaginal sex with a man. Ninety one percent have ever performed oral sex on a man. Fourteen percent have ever had anal sex. People in Coatesville were 15 years old on average when they had sex for the first time. The average man in his lifetime had any kind of sex with 15 women. He has vaginal sex with 10 women. People living here were on average 20 years old when they first performed oral sex on a woman. People in Coatesville were 19 years old on average when they first performed oral sex on a man. The average person in Coatesville has vaginal or anal sex 51 times a year. Twenty nine percent have sex without using a condom. Females in Coatesville 18 years and older have had any kind of sex with four men on average. They have had four male vaginal sex partners in their lifetimes. Eighty four percent of men 18 years old and older are circumcised.

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Sleep Disorders

Coatesville residents 16 years and older usually get six hours of sleep at night on weekdays or workdays. Twenty four percent of them have trouble sleeping.

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Smoking-Cigarette Use

Thirty three percent of Coatesville residents currently smoke cigarettes.

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Physical Activity

Twenty five 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 percent walk or bicycle for at least 10 minutes continuously to get to and from places. Nine 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. Thirty 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 seven 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 two 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 1.3 hours per day.

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Medical Conditions

Six percent of people living here has anemia, sometimes called "tired blood" or "low blood". Four percent of people 16 years and older have ever been told by a doctor or other health care professional that they had psoriasis. Twenty five percent are overweight. Fifty 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. Nine percent have trouble seeing, even when wearing glasses or contact lenses. Eighteen percent of people 20 and older have arthritis. Two percent have ever been told they had gout.

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Reproductive Health

Thirty two percent of births in Coatesville were vaginal deliveries. Sixty eight percent of deliveries were cesarean. 100.0 percent of deliveries resulted in live births. Fifty eight percent of pregnancies resulted in a delivery. Sixty percent of women breastfeed their children. Seventy nine percent have ever taken birth control pills for any reason. Seventeen percent of women are currently taking birth control pills. Nineteen percent have ever used Depo-Provera or injectable birth control to prevent pregnancy.

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Current Health Status

People living in Coatesville report their general health condition on average at 61 percent. Excluding tests they have had as part of blood donations, 25 percent of Coatesville residents have ever had their blood tested for the AIDS virus infection.

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Consumer Behavior

People in Coatesville spend $312 per month on average on food for their families at supermarkets or grocery stores. This is 14 percent of their income. The average family in Coatesville spends $156 on food at other stores monthly. This is eight percent of their income. They spend $159 on eating out, including cafeterias at work or at school or on vending machines. This is six percent of their income. They also spend $12 monthly on carried out or delivered food.

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Audiometry

People living in Coatesville report their general condition of hearing on average at 85 percent. Ninety nine 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. Hundred percent of people can hear a normal voice across a quiet room. Eighteen 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. Forty one percent of people in Coatesville had off-work exposure to loud noise.

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Preventive Aspirin Use

Fifty six percent of Coatesville residents 40 and older take a low-dose aspirin each day to prevent heart attacks, strokes or cancer.

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