Ohio ranks sixth in study on most preventable deaths in the U.S.

Ohio was ranked sixth in the country in a study from High Rise Financial on the states with the most preventable deaths.

The study analyzed the latest data available from the National Center for Health Statistics and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recorded the number of preventable deaths in each state per year, to see which states had the highest rates of preventable deaths between 2010 and 2020.

It found that West Virginia has the most preventable deaths of any state, with an average of 107.94 preventable deaths each year in the study. The findings showed the most dangerous year to be 2020, with 125.6 preventable deaths per 100,000 people, and the ‘safest’ year to be 2010, with 66.59 per 100,000 people.

Ohio placed sixth with 72.63 preventable deaths each year.

New Mexico ranked second, Maine ranked third, Tennessee ranked fourth and Kentucky ranked fifth.

Commenting on the findings, a spokesperson for High Rise Financial said: “The range of deaths that fall under being preventable is fairly broad, and ranges from heart disease and strokes, to unintentional injury, like lack of seatbelt use, or unsafe consumer products, so it is interesting to see the huge difference in these results between certain states.”