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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Cardiovascular Disease

After you left the hospital following your heart attack or stroke,did you go to any kind of outpatient rehabilitation? This is sometimes called 'rehab'*

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 707 194 31.3 26.3-36.9 513 68.7 63.1-73.7
GENDER
Male 338 115 35.4 28.3-43.2 223 64.6 56.8-71.7
Female 369 79 25.7 19.2-33.4 290 74.3 66.6-80.8
RACE
White 574 160 30.7 25.4-36.6 414 69.3 63.4-74.6
African American 109 30 34.1 21.1-50.0 79 65.9 50.0-78.9
Native American 18 3 13.9 3.7-40.4 15 86.1 59.6-96.3
Other Minorities 6 1 62.1 13.3-94.6 5 37.9 5.4-86.7
HISPANIC
Hispanic 6 2 46.9 7.6-90.5 4 53.1 9.5-92.4
-English Speaking 5 1 4.5 0.4-35.7 4 95.5 64.3-99.6
-Spanish Speaking 1 1 100 . - . 0 0.0 . - .
Non-Hispanic 701 192 31.0 26.0-36.5 509 69.0 63.5-74.0
AGE
18-24 1 0 0.0 . - . 1 100 . - .
25-34 12 5 25.8 7.1-61.2 7 74.2 38.8-92.9
35-44 29 8 27.1 11.8-50.7 21 72.9 49.3-88.2
45-54 100 29 27.7 16.0-43.3 71 72.3 56.7-84.0
55-64 178 56 42.4 32.0-53.6 122 57.6 46.4-68.0
65-74 201 48 25.0 17.3-34.7 153 75.0 65.3-82.7
75+ 184 47 30.2 21.3-40.8 137 69.8 59.2-78.7
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 234 58 33.6 25.0-43.5 176 66.4 56.5-75.0
H.S. or G.E.D. 218 61 30.0 21.4-40.3 157 70.0 59.7-78.6
Some Post-H.S. 146 35 24.5 14.4-38.5 111 75.5 61.5-85.6
College Graduate 108 40 37.9 26.4-50.8 68 62.1 49.2-73.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 163 40 33.2 22.7-45.6 123 66.8 54.4-77.3
$15,000- 24,999 138 34 24.1 15.1-36.1 104 75.9 63.9-84.9
$25,000- 34,999 72 16 21.1 12.1-34.3 56 78.9 65.7-87.9
$35,000- 49,999 76 25 47.8 31.3-64.8 51 52.2 35.2-68.7
$50,000-74,999 39 11 28.5 13.3-50.8 28 71.5 49.2-86.7
$75,000+ 32 13 35.0 17.1-58.3 19 65.0 41.7-82.9
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 47 13 32.4 19.0-49.3 34 67.6 50.7-81.0
Guilford 38 11 25.9 13.6-43.8 27 74.1 56.2-86.4
Mecklenburg 32 7 31.0 15.0-53.5 25 69.0 46.5-85.0
Orange 16 2 13.9 3.3-43.2 14 86.1 56.8-96.7
Wake 22 7 35.4 15.0-63.1 15 64.6 36.9-85.0
Chatham/Lee 28 6 22.2 9.5-43.7 22 77.8 56.3-90.5
Nash/Wilson 27 7 18.6 8.5-36.0 20 81.4 64.0-91.5
Craven/Pamlico 32 5 21.0 8.6-42.9 27 79.0 57.1-91.4
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 47 14 27.7 15.9-43.7 33 72.3 56.3-84.1
Appalachian/Wilkes 36 13 38.5 23.4-56.2 23 61.5 43.8-76.6
Franklin/Gran./Vance 38 9 28.5 15.0-47.3 29 71.5 52.7-85.0
Graham/Swain/Jackson 32 8 24.9 12.3-44.0 24 75.1 56.0-87.7
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 43 14 36.8 22.7-53.5 29 63.2 46.5-77.3
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 32 7 19.5 8.6-38.4 25 80.5 61.6-91.4
Northeast NC I 31 7 25.6 11.9-46.6 24 74.4 53.4-88.1
Northeast NC II 50 12 27.6 15.9-43.4 38 72.4 56.6-84.1
Northeastern Partnership 81 19 27.0 17.3-39.6 62 73.0 60.4-82.7
Mountain AHEC 111 33 33.9 23.0-47.0 78 66.1 53.0-77.0
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 252 64 28.0 20.8-36.5 188 72.0 63.5-79.2
Piedmont 273 72 31.0 23.8-39.3 201 69.0 60.7-76.2
Western NC 182 58 37.5 25.6-51.1 124 62.5 48.9-74.4

Due to the small number of respondents to this question, no further breakdowns are available.

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*This question was asked only of respondents who reported having had a heart attack or stroke.

^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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