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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 80,401 69,274 84.9 84.4-85.3 3,491 4.8 4.5- 5.0 7,636 10.4 10.0-10.8
Alabama 3,229 2,861 88.5 87.1-89.9 164 4.7 3.9- 5.6 204 6.8 5.7- 8.1
Arkansas 3,994 3,470 86.6 85.3-87.8 158 4.0 3.4- 4.8 366 9.4 8.4-10.5
Florida 4,838 3,960 80.2 78.3-82.0 316 6.6 5.6- 7.7 562 13.2 11.7-14.9
Georgia 7,345 6,213 84.9 83.7-86.0 304 3.8 3.2- 4.4 828 11.3 10.3-12.4
Iowa 4,846 4,383 90.4 89.3-91.4 146 3.0 2.4- 3.6 317 6.6 5.8- 7.6
Louisiana 4,925 4,177 84.3 83.1-85.5 314 6.6 5.9- 7.5 434 9.0 8.1-10.1
Minnesota 3,855 3,465 89.8 88.6-90.8 131 3.1 2.6- 3.7 259 7.1 6.2- 8.2
Montana 3,887 3,330 85.7 84.1-87.2 179 4.7 3.8- 5.8 378 9.6 8.4-11.0
Nebraska 4,851 4,269 87.4 86.2-88.5 176 3.4 2.9- 4.0 406 9.2 8.2-10.2
North Carolina 9,308 8,097 85.3 84.0-86.5 311 3.5 2.9- 4.2 900 11.3 10.2-12.4
North Dakota 2,918 2,593 88.4 87.0-89.7 118 3.8 3.1- 4.6 207 7.8 6.7- 9.0
Ohio 3,606 3,072 83.6 82.0-85.2 165 5.1 4.2- 6.1 369 11.3 10.0-12.7
Oklahoma 7,590 6,558 85.6 84.5-86.5 244 3.3 2.8- 3.8 788 11.1 10.3-12.1
South Carolina 5,561 4,810 85.0 83.8-86.2 206 4.1 3.5- 4.9 545 10.9 9.9-11.9
Tennessee 2,542 2,183 86.7 85.0-88.1 160 6.2 5.1- 7.4 199 7.2 6.1- 8.4
Virginia 5,139 4,418 86.3 84.9-87.5 216 3.9 3.3- 4.6 505 9.8 8.8-11.0
Virgin Islands 1,967 1,415 71.7 68.8-74.3 183 9.3 7.7-11.1 369 19.0 16.7-21.7

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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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