This is something that I had been meaning to do for some time. The information linking sunlight and MS made me get off my butt and do it. I am posting this as two separate "sorts". This one lists the states by the PD rate as a percentage of the population as determined by the NPF analysis of drug company data of Sinemet sales. In the world of PD research, that is probably the best data ever gathered on this demographic. See Lieberman's "Shaking Up Parkinson's Disease". The second sort is arranged by latitude and follows this post as Part 2. Finally, the fun begins with Part 3 - Analysis.


State by State Comparison of
PD Rates and Latitude

Sorted by PD Rates (Column 2)
Column 3 is distance above
equator in degrees (Latitude)

State PWP (%) Lat (GeoCntr)

HI 0.18 21.1
DE 0.19 39.3
MD 0.21 39.1
WY 0.21 42.7
CA 0.22 36.2
VA 0.22 37.8
NM 0.24 34.8
NV 0.25 38.4
DC 0.25 38.9
MA 0.25 42.2
NH 0.25 43.4
SC 0.27 33.8
CO 0.27 39.1
TX 0.28 31.1
NC 0.29 35.6
AK 0.29 61.4
GA 0.3 33
NJ 0.3 40.3
WA 0.3 47.4
LA 0.31 31.2
MS 0.32 32.8
IL 0.32 40.3
OH 0.32 40.4
CT 0.32 41.6
NY 0.32 42.1
RI 0.34 41.7
IN 0.35 39.9
PA 0.35 40.6
MI 0.35 43.4
ME 0.37 44.6
MT 0.37 46.9
KY 0.38 37.7
MO 0.4 38.4
UT 0.4 40.1
VT 0.41 44.3
AL 0.41 32.8
AZ 0.41 33.8
FL 0.42 27.8
WI 0.42 44.3
OR 0.42 44.6
OK 0.43 35.5
KS 0.45 38.5
ID 0.45 44.2
TN 0.47 35.7
AR 0.55 34.9
WV 0.55 38.5
MN 0.63 45.7
NE 0.68 41.1
IA 0.68 42
SD 0.73 44.3
ND 0.9 47.5