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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 80,626 75,600 93.5 93.2-93.9 2,565 3.1 2.9- 3.3 2,461 3.4 3.1- 3.6
Alabama 3,243 3,066 94.7 93.8-95.6 113 3.4 2.8- 4.2 64 1.8 1.3- 2.5
Arkansas 4,007 3,771 94.3 93.4-95.0 120 3.0 2.5- 3.7 116 2.7 2.2- 3.4
Florida 4,858 4,466 91.7 90.3-92.8 174 3.6 2.9- 4.5 218 4.7 3.8- 5.8
Georgia 7,362 6,904 94.1 93.3-94.9 205 2.4 2.0- 2.9 253 3.5 2.9- 4.2
Iowa 4,857 4,632 95.6 94.9-96.2 151 2.8 2.3- 3.4 74 1.6 1.2- 2.1
Louisiana 4,935 4,474 90.3 89.3-91.3 275 5.8 5.1- 6.7 186 3.8 3.2- 4.5
Minnesota 3,859 3,732 96.9 96.2-97.5 75 1.7 1.3- 2.2 52 1.4 1.0- 1.9
Montana 3,899 3,673 95.3 94.4-96.0 128 2.5 2.0- 3.2 98 2.2 1.7- 2.9
Nebraska 4,865 4,593 94.5 93.7-95.2 169 3.0 2.5- 3.5 103 2.6 2.1- 3.2
North Carolina 9,325 8,719 92.2 91.2-93.2 239 2.6 2.1- 3.3 367 5.1 4.4- 6.1
North Dakota 2,927 2,779 95.1 94.1-96.0 93 2.8 2.2- 3.6 55 2.1 1.5- 2.9
Ohio 3,632 3,442 94.0 92.8-95.0 103 3.2 2.5- 4.1 87 2.8 2.2- 3.7
Oklahoma 7,593 7,137 93.7 93.0-94.4 191 2.3 1.9- 2.7 265 4.0 3.4- 4.6
South Carolina 5,590 5,251 93.1 92.2-93.9 172 3.5 2.9- 4.1 167 3.4 2.8- 4.1
Tennessee 2,544 2,336 92.7 91.5-93.7 125 4.3 3.5- 5.3 83 3.0 2.3- 3.9
Virginia 5,157 4,938 96.2 95.4-96.8 98 1.6 1.3- 2.1 121 2.2 1.7- 2.9
Virgin Islands 1,973 1,687 86.0 83.8-87.9 134 6.0 4.8- 7.4 152 8.0 6.5- 9.9

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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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