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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Cardiovascular Disease-MALES

Why do you take aspirin... To relieve pain?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 1,163 294 25.9 22.1-30.0 869 74.1 70.0-77.9
RACE
White 935 219 24.2 20.3-28.7 716 75.8 71.3-79.7
African American 179 54 26.3 17.8-37.1 125 73.7 62.9-82.2
Asian 1 0 0.0 . - . 1 100 . - .
Native American 26 10 40.5 19.4-65.9 16 59.5 34.1-80.6
Other Minorities 17 9 62.5 30.4-86.5 8 37.5 13.5-69.6
HISPANIC
Hispanic 19 12 67.8 35.8-88.8 7 32.2 11.2-64.2
-English Speaking 10 4 37.9 8.8-79.5 6 62.1 20.5-91.2
-Spanish Speaking 9 8 80.5 32.5-97.3 1 19.5 2.7-67.5
Non-Hispanic 1,144 282 24.3 20.7-28.3 862 75.7 71.7-79.3
AGE
35-44 151 58 42.8 31.5-54.9 93 57.2 45.1-68.5
45-54 258 69 25.9 18.3-35.3 189 74.1 64.7-81.7
55-64 320 69 21.7 15.8-29.1 251 78.3 70.9-84.2
65-74 274 58 17.5 12.4-24.2 216 82.5 75.8-87.6
75+ 159 40 23.8 15.9-34.0 119 76.2 66.0-84.1
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 217 65 32.3 22.6-43.9 152 67.7 56.1-77.4
H.S. or G.E.D. 343 98 29.2 22.2-37.3 245 70.8 62.7-77.8
Some Post-H.S. 251 64 28.3 20.8-37.2 187 71.7 62.8-79.2
College Graduate 348 65 18.6 13.2-25.5 283 81.4 74.5-86.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 113 39 35.9 23.1-51.1 74 64.1 48.9-76.9
$15,000- 24,999 184 53 34.3 23.3-47.3 131 65.7 52.7-76.7
$25,000- 34,999 126 30 25.4 15.8-38.2 96 74.6 61.8-84.2
$35,000- 49,999 180 35 25.4 16.3-37.3 145 74.6 62.7-83.7
$50,000-74,999 154 31 24.2 15.4-35.8 123 75.8 64.2-84.6
$75,000+ 169 28 14.0 8.0-23.4 141 86.0 76.6-92.0
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 66 15 24.3 14.7-37.5 51 75.7 62.5-85.3
Guilford 50 6 12.0 5.2-25.4 44 88.0 74.6-94.8
Mecklenburg 43 10 22.7 11.2-40.7 33 77.3 59.3-88.8
Orange 51 16 32.3 20.1-47.5 35 67.7 52.5-79.9
Wake 47 10 15.7 7.7-29.4 37 84.3 70.6-92.3
Chatham/Lee 50 11 22.8 12.3-38.3 39 77.2 61.7-87.7
Nash/Wilson 53 20 42.2 28.0-57.8 33 57.8 42.2-72.0
Craven/Pamlico 61 13 21.5 12.3-34.9 48 78.5 65.1-87.7
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 59 13 16.5 8.4-29.7 46 83.5 70.3-91.6
Appalachian/Wilkes 62 15 23.2 14.1-35.9 47 76.8 64.1-85.9
Franklin/Gran./Vance 59 20 40.4 24.7-58.3 39 59.6 41.7-75.3
Graham/Swain/Jackson 58 11 44.2 15.4-77.5 47 55.8 22.5-84.6
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 69 19 28.6 18.6-41.3 50 71.4 58.7-81.4
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 42 12 29.1 16.6-45.7 30 70.9 54.3-83.4
Northeast NC I 57 12 24.6 14.3-39.0 45 75.4 61.0-85.7
Northeast NC II 66 21 31.1 20.4-44.3 45 68.9 55.7-79.6
Northeastern Partnership 123 33 29.0 20.8-38.8 90 71.0 61.2-79.2
Mountain AHEC 173 39 32.1 22.3-43.8 134 67.9 56.2-77.7
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 420 117 29.2 22.6-36.7 303 70.8 63.3-77.4
Piedmont 473 116 23.6 18.5-29.6 357 76.4 70.4-81.5
Western NC 270 61 27.1 19.5-36.3 209 72.9 63.7-80.5

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

^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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