I am fascinated by statistics. The last few blogs have served as an update on IRS hot buttons. There are a few more in the offing but today I want to pass on some interesting statistics, if not alarming statistics, that appeared in the July 29, 2011 edition of the San Antonio Business Journal.
The July 29 edition was dedicated to health care. One section presented the following statistics from the Bexar County Health District:
The largest hospital is Baptist Medical Center. I always assumed that University Hospital would be the largest.
30% of 216,935 kids in Bexar County that were tested were overweight! There were 15,058 sexually transmitted diseases reported in 2009. Further, 24 out of every 1,000 was the number of Bexar County residences diagnosed with diabetes.
I suppose the logical conclusion is that we enjoy our sweets and personal companionships.
Finally, the leading causes of death in the County were heart disease, vehicle accidents, diabetes and throat/lung cancer. All of this leads to our final conclusion that we must have smoked a cigarette as we drove home from our night of indulgences.
Steve Cook is the managing member of Cook, Gola and Company, PLLC, certified public accountants with offices in San Antonio and Austin. www.cookgola.com
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