MN among states with highest rates of melanoma

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https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion ... udy-finds/

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Admittedly just skimmed it, but funny to me that even an article related to health won’t state the obvious that the states with the highest incidence of melanoma cases coincide almost exactly with the states with the whitest whiteboys. “It’s cause the people love the outdoors.” It’s amazing to me that we can’t talk about racial and ancestral makeup anymore even when talking in terms of health.

I bet the love of the outdoors is also why Minnesota is a national hotbed for female volleyball players. It definitely doesn’t have anything to do with all of the giant blonde haired, blue eyed chicks of Scandinavian and German heritage.

[Fish Felon]

Admittedly just skimmed it, but funny to me that even an article related to health won’t state the obvious that the states with the highest incidence of melanoma cases coincide almost exactly with the states with the whitest whiteboys. “It’s cause the people love the outdoors.” It’s amazing to me that we can’t talk about racial and ancestral makeup anymore even when talking in terms of health.

I bet the love of the outdoors is also why Minnesota is a national hotbed for female volleyball players. It definitely doesn’t have anything to do with all of the giant blonde haired, blue eyed chicks of Scandinavian and German heritage.

It does go down that road in the article....that's why I liked it.


MN goes from 27.6 to 27.9 once they're factoring in just white people.....so what does that tell us?

Not a lot of Nig-Nogs! Haha

What the data revealed
When the researchers compared that historical data to 2011-2015 data, they found that UV exposure currently accounts for 91 percent of all melanoma cases in the United States — a figure that jumps to 94 percent of cases when the calculation includes only non-Hispanic whites.

The melanoma incidence rate was found to be 1.0 per 100,000 for blacks, 4.5 per 100,000 for Hispanics and 17.2 per 100,000 for non-Hispanic whites.

The five states with the highest UV-attributable incidence rates among all residents were the following:

Utah: 36.3 cases per 100,000
Vermont: 31.1 per 100,000
Delaware: 28.2 per 100,000
Minnesota: 27.6 per 100,000
New Hampshire: 27.2 per 100,000


The researchers also calculated the melanoma incidence rates just for non-Hispanic whites in each state rather than for the entire population. That’s because some states’ lower rates could reflect the fact that they have higher proportions of nonwhite residents, who are less at risk for melanoma.

These non-Hispanic white incidence rates varied from 15.1 per 100,000 in Alaska to 65.1 per 100,000 in Hawaii. Several of the states with the highest rates are famous for their beaches:

Hawaii: 65.1 cases per 100,000
Delaware: 37.1 per 100,000
Georgia: 36.5 per 100,000
California: 33.8 per 100,000
Maryland: 32.6 per 100,000
But several landlocked states also had high rates, including Minnesota:

Utah: 40.4 cases per 100,000
Vermont: 31.4 per 100,000
Minnesota: 27.9 per 100,000
Idaho: 27.6 per 100,000
Kentucky: 25.7 per 100,000

These numbers indicate that “the UV index is not the only determinant of sun exposure intensity, as indicated by high sunburn prevalence in many states with relatively low UV index, such as Minnesota and Idaho, where about 50% of whites [aged 18 and older] in 2004 reported having at least one sunburn during the preceding year,” the researchers write.

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MN total melanoma case rate: 27.6 per 100,000

For whites only: 27.9

Utah total melanoma case rate: 36.3

Whites only: 40.4


Doesn't it seem crazy that Utah jumps that much? I think of Utah as being a pretty "White" state. They must have a lot of Hispanics???

And it's crazy MN is that white. I mean we're white, but just go to down town Minneapolis and after doing that.....how can our number be virtually unchanged?

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There's a reason I now keep my shirt on and wear the long pants year round. I had terrible parents that allowed me to massively sunburn repeatedly as a young child