SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2003 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina

Heart Attack and Stroke-WHITE MALES

Do you think sudden numbness or weakness of face, arm, or leg, especially on one side, are symptoms of a stroke?

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
Yes No Don't know/Not sure
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 2,543 2,398 94.4 92.8-95.7 38 1.0 0.7- 1.7 107 4.5 3.3- 6.1
AGE
18-24 135 123 90.2 80.0-95.5 3 1.8 0.5- 7.0 9 7.9 3.2-18.4
25-34 354 331 92.3 87.3-95.4 4 0.7 0.3- 1.9 19 7.0 4.0-12.1
35-44 503 494 98.7 96.7-99.5 3 0.2 0.0- 0.6 6 1.1 0.4- 3.2
45-54 483 470 97.1 93.5-98.7 3 0.2 0.1- 0.5 10 2.7 1.1- 6.5
55-64 450 434 96.4 92.2-98.4 5 0.7 0.2- 2.0 11 2.9 1.1- 7.3
65-74 381 344 91.6 86.9-94.7 11 3.9 1.8- 8.4 26 4.5 2.6- 7.6
75+ 228 193 86.0 79.1-91.0 9 2.8 1.2- 6.3 26 11.2 6.8-18.0
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 331 283 86.5 79.7-91.2 12 2.2 1.0- 5.0 36 11.3 6.9-17.9
H.S. or G.E.D. 714 663 92.7 89.4-95.0 14 1.6 0.8- 3.0 37 5.7 3.6- 8.9
Some Post-H.S. 630 605 94.9 90.2-97.4 7 1.0 0.3- 3.0 18 4.1 1.8- 9.0
College Graduate 862 843 98.3 96.8-99.1 4 0.2 0.1- 0.6 15 1.5 0.8- 3.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 185 165 88.2 77.7-94.1 3 1.4 0.4- 4.9 17 10.5 4.9-21.1
$15,000- 24,999 361 319 93.5 89.8-95.9 11 1.5 0.7- 3.0 31 5.0 2.9- 8.6
$25,000- 34,999 271 260 95.8 90.2-98.3 5 1.8 0.4- 8.1 6 2.4 0.8- 6.6
$35,000- 49,999 415 401 95.8 92.2-97.7 2 1.0 0.2- 3.8 12 3.3 1.6- 6.5
$50,000-74,999 356 350 96.3 85.8-99.1 2 0.2 0.0- 0.8 4 3.5 0.8-14.4
$75,000+ 442 438 98.6 95.0-99.6 1 0.1 0.0- 0.4 3 1.4 0.4- 5.0
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 156 147 93.0 84.7-97.0 2 2.2 0.4-11.5 7 4.7 1.8-11.7
Guilford 112 107 97.1 92.8-98.9 2 1.1 0.3- 4.8 3 1.8 0.5- 5.7
Mecklenburg 109 102 92.6 83.8-96.8 0 0.0 . - . 7 7.4 3.2-16.2
Orange 134 129 97.7 94.2-99.1 0 0.0 . - . 5 2.3 0.9- 5.8
Wake 125 120 96.1 90.4-98.5 2 0.9 0.2- 3.6 3 3.0 0.9- 9.0
Chatham/Lee 115 112 97.7 92.8-99.3 1 1.0 0.1- 7.0 2 1.2 0.3- 5.0
Nash/Wilson 82 75 94.3 87.8-97.4 2 1.9 0.4- 7.8 5 3.8 1.5- 9.4
Craven/Pamlico 129 121 94.8 89.8-97.5 1 0.8 0.1- 5.4 7 4.4 2.0- 9.1
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 146 135 93.2 87.3-96.5 4 1.7 0.6- 4.7 7 5.0 2.2-11.0
Appalachian/Wilkes 158 148 94.0 88.3-97.0 3 1.4 0.4- 5.1 7 4.6 2.0-10.1
Franklin/Gran./Vance 103 99 98.1 94.5-99.3 1 0.3 0.0- 2.3 3 1.6 0.5- 5.3
Graham/Swain/Jackson 138 133 96.1 88.4-98.7 2 2.4 0.4-12.1 3 1.5 0.5- 5.1
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 82 75 93.2 85.5-96.9 2 2.0 0.5- 8.7 5 4.8 1.9-11.7
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 83 75 88.9 75.4-95.4 2 4.0 0.7-19.1 6 7.2 2.5-18.8
Northeast NC I 71 67 97.2 92.2-99.0 2 1.1 0.3- 4.5 2 1.7 0.4- 7.0
Northeast NC II 125 120 97.4 93.2-99.0 3 1.9 0.6- 6.4 2 0.7 0.2- 2.7
Northeastern Partnership 196 187 97.4 94.3-98.8 5 1.7 0.6- 4.9 4 0.9 0.3- 2.5
Mountain AHEC 427 399 91.2 85.2-94.9 9 3.4 1.3- 8.6 19 5.4 2.7-10.4
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 731 687 95.0 90.4-97.4 12 1.0 0.5- 2.2 32 4.0 1.7- 8.8
Piedmont 1,120 1,070 95.9 94.0-97.2 10 0.4 0.2- 0.8 40 3.7 2.5- 5.6
Western NC 692 641 88.7 83.6-92.3 16 3.3 1.6- 6.6 35 8.0 5.0-12.7

Back to Heart Attack and 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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 16JUN04.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook