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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: Nationwide Data

Heart Attack and Stroke

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  Total
Respond.#
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
All Participants 80,603 9,617 11.4 11.1-11.8 70,986 88.6 88.2-88.9
Alabama 3,241 449 12.8 11.5-14.1 2,792 87.2 85.9-88.5
Arkansas 4,005 500 11.6 10.5-12.7 3,505 88.4 87.3-89.5
Florida 4,846 599 10.8 9.7-12.1 4,247 89.2 87.9-90.3
Georgia 7,365 727 8.8 8.0- 9.6 6,638 91.2 90.4-92.0
Iowa 4,858 611 12.1 11.1-13.3 4,247 87.9 86.7-88.9
Louisiana 4,939 484 8.9 8.1- 9.8 4,455 91.1 90.2-91.9
Minnesota 3,859 528 12.4 11.4-13.6 3,331 87.6 86.4-88.6
Montana 3,895 536 13.9 12.5-15.5 3,359 86.1 84.5-87.5
Nebraska 4,865 551 10.7 9.8-11.7 4,314 89.3 88.3-90.2
North Carolina 9,324 1,073 10.7 9.8-11.7 8,251 89.3 88.3-90.2
North Dakota 2,927 385 12.1 10.9-13.4 2,542 87.9 86.6-89.1
Ohio 3,630 534 13.6 12.3-15.0 3,096 86.4 85.0-87.7
Oklahoma 7,593 820 9.8 9.1-10.6 6,773 90.2 89.4-90.9
South Carolina 5,591 685 10.6 9.8-11.5 4,906 89.4 88.5-90.2
Tennessee 2,540 420 15.7 14.2-17.3 2,120 84.3 82.7-85.8
Virginia 5,160 632 10.9 9.9-12.0 4,528 89.1 88.0-90.1
Virgin Islands 1,965 83 3.7 2.9- 4.8 1,882 96.3 95.2-97.1

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+ Only participating states or terretories are presented here.

Data in this table were derived from the all six heart attack symptoms questions..

#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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