SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2003 BRFSS Survey Results: Nationwide Data

Heart Attack and Stroke

Do you think sudden numbness or weakness of face, arm, or leg, especially on one side, are symptoms of a stroke?

Back to Heart Attack and Stroke. Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.#
Yes No Don't know/Not sure
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
All Participants 80,475 75,032 92.6 92.3-93.0 1,744 2.4 2.2- 2.6 3,699 5.0 4.7- 5.3
Alabama 3,237 3,063 94.4 93.3-95.3 79 2.5 1.9- 3.2 95 3.1 2.4- 4.0
Arkansas 4,001 3,737 93.1 92.1-94.0 68 1.9 1.4- 2.5 196 5.0 4.3- 5.9
Florida 4,843 4,466 90.7 89.2-92.0 126 3.3 2.6- 4.2 251 6.0 4.9- 7.2
Georgia 7,348 6,839 92.9 92.0-93.8 146 1.8 1.4- 2.2 363 5.3 4.6- 6.2
Iowa 4,850 4,583 94.1 93.2-94.9 88 1.8 1.4- 2.3 179 4.2 3.5- 5.0
Louisiana 4,929 4,487 90.4 89.4-91.4 186 4.0 3.4- 4.7 256 5.6 4.8- 6.4
Minnesota 3,856 3,676 94.9 94.0-95.7 68 1.8 1.3- 2.3 112 3.4 2.7- 4.1
Montana 3,887 3,692 94.7 93.6-95.7 65 1.7 1.2- 2.4 130 3.5 2.8- 4.5
Nebraska 4,857 4,519 92.7 91.8-93.6 122 2.2 1.8- 2.7 216 5.1 4.4- 5.9
North Carolina 9,312 8,619 90.5 89.3-91.6 169 2.2 1.7- 2.8 524 7.3 6.4- 8.4
North Dakota 2,921 2,738 93.6 92.4-94.5 84 2.5 2.0- 3.3 99 3.9 3.1- 4.9
Ohio 3,615 3,431 94.1 93.0-95.1 58 1.9 1.3- 2.7 126 4.0 3.2- 4.9
Oklahoma 7,591 6,946 90.2 89.3-91.1 171 2.7 2.2- 3.3 474 7.1 6.3- 7.8
South Carolina 5,573 5,253 92.7 91.7-93.6 105 2.0 1.6- 2.6 215 5.2 4.4- 6.2
Tennessee 2,544 2,380 93.7 92.3-94.8 85 3.6 2.7- 4.8 79 2.7 2.1- 3.5
Virginia 5,142 4,884 94.9 94.0-95.7 42 0.8 0.5- 1.2 216 4.3 3.6- 5.2
Virgin Islands 1,969 1,719 86.9 84.7-88.8 82 4.3 3.2- 5.8 168 8.8 7.2-10.6

Back to Heart Attack and Stroke.

+ 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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 16JUN04.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook