• Minnesota was ranked as the sixth healthiest state in 2009 by America’s Health Rankings, down from third in 2008.
  
  
• Infant mortality rates among African Americans and Native Americans in Minnesota are nearly twice that of whites, Hispanics, and Asian Americans.
  
  
• The increase of obesity rate has become a national public health issue. About 1 in 4 adults in our state was obese in 2009 compare to 1 in 6 in 1995.
  
  
• Minnesota exhibited the lowest overall rate of diabetes among the 50 states and District of Columbia.
  
  
• The number of Minnesotans without health insurance increased from 374,000 to 480,000 between 2007 and 2009.
  
  

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