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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 80,430 15,158 18.5 18.1-19.0 65,272 81.5 81.0-81.9
Alabama 3,233 671 21.2 19.5-22.9 2,562 78.8 77.1-80.5
Arkansas 3,995 722 17.5 16.2-18.9 3,273 82.5 81.1-83.8
Florida 4,840 860 16.3 14.8-17.8 3,980 83.7 82.2-85.2
Georgia 7,350 1,299 17.7 16.5-19.0 6,051 82.3 81.0-83.5
Iowa 4,846 985 19.7 18.4-21.1 3,861 80.3 78.9-81.6
Louisiana 4,930 771 14.7 13.6-15.9 4,159 85.3 84.1-86.4
Minnesota 3,854 883 22.0 20.6-23.5 2,971 78.0 76.5-79.4
Montana 3,883 767 21.0 19.3-22.8 3,116 79.0 77.2-80.7
Nebraska 4,851 962 19.2 18.0-20.4 3,889 80.8 79.6-82.0
North Carolina 9,308 1,740 17.2 16.0-18.4 7,568 82.8 81.6-84.0
North Dakota 2,918 621 20.1 18.6-21.8 2,297 79.9 78.2-81.4
Ohio 3,610 770 20.4 18.8-22.1 2,840 79.6 77.9-81.2
Oklahoma 7,590 1,300 16.2 15.3-17.1 6,290 83.8 82.9-84.7
South Carolina 5,569 1,024 17.0 15.9-18.2 4,545 83.0 81.8-84.1
Tennessee 2,541 608 23.7 21.8-25.7 1,933 76.3 74.3-78.2
Virginia 5,145 1,026 18.9 17.6-20.4 4,119 81.1 79.6-82.4
Virgin Islands 1,967 149 6.9 5.7- 8.5 1,818 93.1 91.5-94.3

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+ Only participating states or terretories are presented here.

Data in this table were derived from the all six stroke 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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