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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: Nationwide Data

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%)
All Participants 111013 5,077 4.0 3.9- 4.2 105936 96.0 95.8-96.1
Alabama 3,216 175 4.5 3.9- 5.4 3,041 95.5 94.6-96.1
Alaska 2,603 66 2.3 1.7- 3.3 2,537 97.7 96.7-98.3
Arkansas 3,970 233 5.6 4.8- 6.4 3,737 94.4 93.6-95.2
Colorado 3,981 126 2.8 2.3- 3.4 3,855 97.2 96.6-97.7
Connecticut 5,010 151 2.8 2.4- 3.4 4,859 97.2 96.6-97.6
District of Columbia 1,926 48 2.6 1.9- 3.6 1,878 97.4 96.4-98.1
Georgia 7,295 357 3.9 3.4- 4.4 6,938 96.1 95.6-96.6
Hawaii 5,956 113 1.4 1.1- 1.8 5,843 98.6 98.2-98.9
Kentucky 7,251 458 5.0 4.4- 5.7 6,793 95.0 94.3-95.6
Louisiana 4,898 240 4.7 4.1- 5.5 4,658 95.3 94.5-95.9
Maine 2,286 107 4.3 3.5- 5.3 2,179 95.7 94.7-96.5
Maryland 4,183 161 3.4 2.8- 4.1 4,022 96.6 95.9-97.2
Minnesota 3,834 153 3.4 2.9- 4.1 3,681 96.6 95.9-97.1
Mississippi 4,271 231 4.9 4.2- 5.6 4,040 95.1 94.4-95.8
Montana 3,864 164 3.7 3.0- 4.5 3,700 96.3 95.5-97.0
Nebraska 4,832 218 3.8 3.3- 4.4 4,614 96.2 95.6-96.7
New York 5,251 203 3.6 3.0- 4.2 5,048 96.4 95.8-97.0
North Carolina 9,300 483 4.1 3.5- 4.6 8,817 95.9 95.4-96.5
North Dakota 2,905 132 4.2 3.5- 5.0 2,773 95.8 95.0-96.5
Ohio 3,582 168 4.7 3.9- 5.6 3,414 95.3 94.4-96.1
South Carolina 5,530 254 4.3 3.7- 4.9 5,276 95.7 95.1-96.3
Tennessee 2,525 130 4.7 3.9- 5.6 2,395 95.3 94.4-96.1
Virginia 5,102 249 3.9 3.3- 4.5 4,853 96.1 95.5-96.7
West Virginia 3,300 264 7.4 6.5- 8.4 3,036 92.6 91.6-93.5
Puerto Rico 4,142 193 3.7 3.1- 4.4 3,949 96.3 95.6-96.9

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+ Only participating states or terretories are presented here.

#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 and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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