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BRFSS Survey Results 2003 for Craven/Pamlico Counties

Cardiovascular Disease

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional ever told you that you had any of the following:
A heart attack, also called a myocardial infarction?

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 9,300 483 4.1 3.5- 4.6 8,817 95.9 95.4-96.5
-Craven/Pamlico 448 25 4.3 2.8- 6.6 423 95.7 93.4-97.2
GENDER
Male 167 16 6.3 3.6-10.8 151 93.7 89.2-96.4
Female 281 9 2.6 1.3- 5.0 272 97.4 95.0-98.7
RACE
White 347 21 5.1 3.2- 8.0 326 94.9 92.0-96.8
Other 100 4 1.8 0.7- 5.0 96 98.2 95.0-99.3
AGE
18-44 155 0 0.0 . - . 155 100 . - .
45+ 290 25 7.5 4.9-11.3 265 92.5 88.7-95.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 200 13 4.4 2.4- 7.7 187 95.6 92.3-97.6
Some College + 247 12 4.3 2.3- 8.1 235 95.7 91.9-97.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 243 16 5.8 3.4- 9.7 227 94.2 90.3-96.6
$50,000+ 107 4 3.1 1.0- 8.8 103 96.9 91.2-99.0
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 448 36 7.7 5.4-10.9 412 92.3 89.1-94.6
Guilford 444 24 5.7 3.5- 9.1 420 94.3 90.9-96.5
Mecklenburg 444 24 4.5 2.9- 7.0 420 95.5 93.0-97.1
Orange 450 13 1.9 1.1- 3.4 437 98.1 96.6-98.9
Wake 444 11 1.7 0.9- 3.3 433 98.3 96.7-99.1
Chatham/Lee 393 16 3.1 1.8- 5.3 377 96.9 94.7-98.2
Nash/Wilson 370 16 4.2 2.5- 7.1 354 95.8 92.9-97.5
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 429 34 6.9 4.7- 9.9 395 93.1 90.1-95.3
Appalachian/Wilkes 452 26 4.3 2.8- 6.4 426 95.7 93.6-97.2
Franklin/Gran./Vance 471 24 4.4 2.4- 7.8 447 95.6 92.2-97.6
Graham/Swain/Jackson 422 26 4.3 2.7- 6.8 396 95.7 93.2-97.3
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 469 31 6.9 4.7-10.0 438 93.1 90.0-95.3
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 411 25 6.5 4.1-10.1 386 93.5 89.9-95.9
Northeast NC I 452 17 3.1 1.9- 5.2 435 96.9 94.8-98.1
Northeast NC II 503 31 5.5 3.7- 8.1 472 94.5 91.9-96.3
Northeastern Partnership 955 48 4.7 3.4- 6.4 907 95.3 93.6-96.6
Mountain AHEC 1,292 85 5.3 4.0- 7.0 1,207 94.7 93.0-96.0
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 3,254 173 4.1 3.3- 5.1 3,081 95.9 94.9-96.7
Piedmont 3,991 171 3.5 2.9- 4.3 3,820 96.5 95.7-97.1
Western NC 2,055 139 6.1 4.5- 8.2 1,916 93.9 91.8-95.5

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^Use caution in interpreting percentages with a numerator of less than 20. N = numerator, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

** Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Northeast NC I and II regions combined.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (AHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

*** Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

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