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BRFSS Survey Results 2001 for Nationwide +

Cardiovascular Disease

Why do you take aspirin...
To reduce the chance of a heart attack?*

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  Total
Respond.#
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
All Participants 14,307 11,855 83.5 82.6-84.4 2,452 16.5 15.6-17.4
Alabama 619 538 86.3 83.0-89.1 81 13.7 10.9-17.0
Arkansas 658 537 82.6 79.3-85.4 121 17.4 14.6-20.7
Colorado 390 328 85.5 81.4-88.9 62 14.5 11.1-18.6
District of Colum 279 242 85.5 80.2-89.6 37 14.5 10.4-19.8
Iowa 824 695 84.7 81.8-87.2 129 15.3 12.8-18.2
Minnesota 819 696 83.7 80.4-86.6 123 16.3 13.4-19.6
Mississippi 640 490 77.0 73.2-80.3 150 23.0 19.7-26.8
Missouri 945 772 81.4 77.7-84.7 173 18.6 15.3-22.3
Montana 805 683 85.3 81.3-88.5 122 14.7 11.5-18.7
New York 655 541 83.4 80.0-86.3 114 16.6 13.7-20.0
North Carolina 635 543 87.5 83.7-90.6 92 12.5 9.4-16.3
North Dakota 579 463 80.8 77.2-84.0 116 19.2 16.0-22.8
Ohio 692 546 80.7 77.2-83.8 146 19.3 16.2-22.8
Oklahoma 1,121 917 82.0 79.0-84.7 204 18.0 15.3-21.0
South Carolina 614 521 83.7 80.0-86.8 93 16.3 13.2-20.0
Tennessee 615 505 83.5 79.9-86.5 110 16.5 13.5-20.1
Utah 616 515 85.5 81.5-88.8 101 14.5 11.2-18.5
Virginia 593 503 84.2 80.6-87.2 90 15.8 12.8-19.4
Washington 767 629 82.9 79.8-85.6 138 17.1 14.4-20.2
West Virginia 792 695 88.2 85.5-90.4 97 11.8 9.6-14.5
Wyoming 649 496 75.0 71.0-78.6 153 25.0 21.4-29.0

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+ Only participating states or terretories are presented here.

* This question was asked only of respondents who reported taking aspirin regularly.

#Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50. N = Cell Size, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics.

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