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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 80,416 31,222 39.8 39.2-40.4 27,145 34.1 33.5-34.6 22,049 26.1 25.6-26.7
Alabama 3,232 1,394 42.8 40.7-44.8 1,190 37.7 35.8-39.8 648 19.5 17.9-21.2
Arkansas 3,996 1,420 36.7 34.9-38.5 1,284 32.3 30.6-34.0 1,292 31.0 29.4-32.7
Florida 4,839 1,959 42.0 39.9-44.2 1,633 32.9 30.9-34.9 1,247 25.1 23.2-27.1
Georgia 7,346 2,705 38.1 36.5-39.7 2,366 32.9 31.4-34.5 2,275 29.0 27.5-30.5
Iowa 4,847 2,029 42.3 40.6-44.0 1,606 32.9 31.3-34.5 1,212 24.8 23.4-26.3
Louisiana 4,927 2,308 48.4 46.7-50.0 1,456 29.1 27.6-30.6 1,163 22.6 21.2-23.9
Minnesota 3,856 1,298 34.1 32.4-35.8 1,462 37.3 35.6-39.0 1,096 28.6 27.0-30.3
Montana 3,887 1,246 31.0 29.0-33.0 1,557 41.3 39.2-43.5 1,084 27.7 25.8-29.7
Nebraska 4,851 1,894 39.1 37.6-40.7 1,632 33.6 32.1-35.1 1,325 27.3 25.9-28.7
North Carolina 9,309 3,887 43.2 41.5-44.8 2,886 28.9 27.5-30.4 2,536 27.9 26.4-29.4
North Dakota 2,918 1,035 35.6 33.6-37.6 1,087 36.4 34.5-38.4 796 28.0 26.1-29.9
Ohio 3,606 1,211 34.3 32.4-36.3 1,423 38.2 36.3-40.2 972 27.4 25.6-29.3
Oklahoma 7,590 2,917 39.8 38.5-41.1 2,403 30.7 29.5-31.9 2,270 29.5 28.3-30.8
South Carolina 5,563 2,063 39.1 37.6-40.7 1,831 31.6 30.2-33.0 1,669 29.3 27.9-30.7
Tennessee 2,542 994 40.1 37.8-42.4 1,017 40.2 38.0-42.5 531 19.7 17.9-21.6
Virginia 5,139 1,983 39.8 37.9-41.7 1,832 34.8 33.0-36.6 1,324 25.4 23.8-27.1
Virgin Islands 1,968 879 45.1 42.2-48.1 480 23.3 20.9-25.8 609 31.6 28.9-34.5

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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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