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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 80,583 70,887 86.4 85.9-86.8 4,940 7.0 6.7- 7.4 4,756 6.6 6.3- 7.0
Alabama 3,241 2,915 88.5 86.9-89.9 215 7.8 6.6- 9.2 111 3.7 2.9- 4.7
Arkansas 4,000 3,592 88.4 87.1-89.7 205 6.0 5.1- 7.0 203 5.6 4.8- 6.5
Florida 4,853 4,137 81.4 79.5-83.2 369 9.6 8.3-11.1 347 9.0 7.7-10.5
Georgia 7,359 6,374 85.2 84.0-86.4 469 7.2 6.4- 8.2 516 7.5 6.7- 8.5
Iowa 4,854 4,428 90.6 89.5-91.6 243 5.2 4.4- 6.0 183 4.2 3.5- 5.0
Louisiana 4,932 4,181 82.8 81.4-84.1 446 10.4 9.3-11.5 305 6.8 6.0- 7.8
Minnesota 3,859 3,531 90.9 89.8-91.9 181 4.9 4.2- 5.7 147 4.2 3.5- 5.0
Montana 3,895 3,477 89.3 87.8-90.6 230 5.7 4.8- 6.8 188 5.0 4.1- 6.1
Nebraska 4,863 4,360 89.1 88.0-90.1 274 5.5 4.8- 6.4 229 5.3 4.6- 6.1
North Carolina 9,322 8,200 85.7 84.4-87.0 467 5.4 4.6- 6.4 655 8.9 7.9-10.0
North Dakota 2,927 2,646 90.1 88.8-91.3 163 5.5 4.7- 6.6 118 4.3 3.5- 5.3
Ohio 3,632 3,250 88.8 87.4-90.1 196 5.7 4.8- 6.8 186 5.5 4.6- 6.5
Oklahoma 7,591 6,636 85.4 84.3-86.4 408 6.0 5.3- 6.8 547 8.6 7.8- 9.5
South Carolina 5,580 4,974 87.0 85.7-88.1 319 6.5 5.7- 7.4 287 6.5 5.6- 7.5
Tennessee 2,545 2,249 87.8 86.0-89.4 177 7.6 6.3- 9.1 119 4.6 3.7- 5.8
Virginia 5,157 4,674 89.5 88.1-90.8 254 5.7 4.7- 7.0 229 4.8 4.0- 5.7
Virgin Islands 1,973 1,263 60.5 57.5-63.4 324 19.3 16.9-21.9 386 20.2 17.8-22.8

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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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