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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 80,571 70,382 85.7 85.3-86.2 4,861 6.9 6.5- 7.3 5,328 7.4 7.0- 7.7
Alabama 3,242 2,897 88.6 87.1-89.9 203 6.7 5.7- 7.9 142 4.7 3.9- 5.8
Arkansas 3,999 3,579 89.3 88.2-90.4 183 4.6 3.9- 5.4 237 6.1 5.3- 7.0
Florida 4,853 4,003 81.0 79.1-82.7 430 9.8 8.5-11.4 420 9.2 8.0-10.6
Georgia 7,357 6,347 85.9 84.7-87.0 418 6.0 5.3- 6.9 592 8.1 7.2- 9.1
Iowa 4,854 4,413 91.3 90.3-92.2 224 4.3 3.7- 5.1 217 4.3 3.7- 5.0
Louisiana 4,933 4,228 84.9 83.6-86.0 389 8.4 7.5- 9.4 316 6.8 6.0- 7.7
Minnesota 3,859 3,489 90.7 89.6-91.7 162 4.0 3.4- 4.7 208 5.3 4.6- 6.2
Montana 3,896 3,247 84.1 82.5-85.7 362 8.3 7.2- 9.5 287 7.6 6.5- 8.8
Nebraska 4,863 4,362 89.4 88.3-90.4 254 5.0 4.3- 5.7 247 5.7 4.9- 6.5
North Carolina 9,321 8,275 86.7 85.3-87.9 402 4.7 4.0- 5.6 644 8.6 7.6- 9.7
North Dakota 2,927 2,594 88.4 86.9-89.7 180 5.8 4.9- 6.9 153 5.8 4.8- 6.9
Ohio 3,630 3,120 85.4 83.8-86.8 252 7.4 6.3- 8.6 258 7.3 6.2- 8.4
Oklahoma 7,591 6,677 87.3 86.3-88.2 343 4.6 4.0- 5.2 571 8.1 7.4- 8.9
South Carolina 5,581 4,928 87.2 86.0-88.2 313 6.1 5.3- 6.9 340 6.8 6.0- 7.6
Tennessee 2,544 2,136 83.7 81.8-85.3 241 9.5 8.2-11.0 167 6.8 5.7- 8.1
Virginia 5,152 4,578 87.6 86.2-88.9 277 5.6 4.8- 6.5 297 6.8 5.8- 8.0
Virgin Islands 1,969 1,509 77.3 74.8-79.7 228 11.7 10.0-13.7 232 10.9 9.2-13.0

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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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