Not a very well-written article -- it's impossible, for example, to calculate the relative risk rates based on the numbers given -- but interesting. 
 
I wonder if the presence of fast-food outlets in neighbourhoods also correlates with high rates of car use... fast-food outlets do like those restaurant-surrounded-by-large-parking-lot locations...
 
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Coronary rates linked to access to fast food 

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Neighborhoods with more fast food outlets are also neighborhoods with more heart disease and death, a new study finds.And, it doesn't matter how rich or poor a neighborhood might be. The relationship between fast food and adverse outcomes was the same, the study found. The research was done by the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences (ICES). 

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