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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: Nationwide Data

Heart Attack and Stroke

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  Total
Respond.#
Yes No Don't know/Not sure
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
All Participants 80,641 54,446 66.7 66.1-67.3 13,663 18.2 17.7-18.7 12,532 15.2 14.7-15.6
Alabama 3,242 2,322 72.0 70.1-73.8 591 17.3 15.8-18.9 329 10.7 9.4-12.1
Arkansas 4,006 2,824 71.3 69.7-72.9 518 12.5 11.3-13.7 664 16.2 15.0-17.5
Florida 4,857 2,975 60.9 58.8-63.0 1,103 22.8 21.0-24.7 779 16.3 14.7-18.0
Georgia 7,364 4,785 65.7 64.1-67.2 1,213 16.4 15.2-17.6 1,366 17.9 16.7-19.2
Iowa 4,859 3,562 74.1 72.6-75.5 673 13.1 12.0-14.2 624 12.8 11.7-14.0
Louisiana 4,937 3,366 68.7 67.1-70.2 855 17.0 15.9-18.3 716 14.3 13.2-15.5
Minnesota 3,859 2,673 70.4 68.8-72.0 648 16.2 14.9-17.5 538 13.4 12.3-14.7
Montana 3,901 2,498 64.5 62.4-66.6 834 21.2 19.5-23.0 569 14.3 12.8-15.9
Nebraska 4,864 3,527 73.5 72.0-74.8 675 13.1 12.1-14.2 662 13.4 12.4-14.5
North Carolina 9,329 6,460 69.2 67.6-70.7 1,390 14.2 13.1-15.4 1,479 16.7 15.4-18.0
North Dakota 2,926 2,150 73.7 71.8-75.5 405 13.2 11.9-14.7 371 13.1 11.7-14.6
Ohio 3,635 2,411 66.4 64.4-68.3 702 19.1 17.5-20.7 522 14.5 13.2-16.0
Oklahoma 7,594 5,266 69.9 68.6-71.1 1,016 13.0 12.1-13.9 1,312 17.2 16.2-18.2
South Carolina 5,591 3,740 66.1 64.6-67.6 874 15.7 14.6-16.9 977 18.2 17.0-19.5
Tennessee 2,543 1,701 68.3 66.1-70.4 529 19.8 18.1-21.7 313 11.9 10.5-13.5
Virginia 5,162 3,213 63.1 61.2-64.9 1,189 23.0 21.4-24.7 760 13.9 12.7-15.3
Virgin Islands 1,972 973 50.6 47.6-53.5 448 23.1 20.7-25.7 551 26.3 23.8-29.0

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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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