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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: Nationwide Data

Cardiovascular Disease

Why do you take aspirin... To relieve pain?*

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  Total
Respond.#
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
All Participants 28,175 5,917 21.5 20.8-22.3 22,258 78.5 77.7-79.2
Alabama 862 170 19.6 16.7-22.8 692 80.4 77.2-83.3
Alaska 517 149 31.7 26.1-37.9 368 68.3 62.1-73.9
Arkansas 1,188 267 23.3 20.7-26.2 921 76.7 73.8-79.3
Colorado 927 186 20.9 18.0-24.1 741 79.1 75.9-82.0
Connecticut 1,165 207 17.4 15.1-20.0 958 82.6 80.0-84.9
District of Columbia 341 66 19.7 15.1-25.4 275 80.3 74.6-84.9
Georgia 1,865 363 21.6 19.0-24.3 1,502 78.4 75.7-81.0
Hawaii 821 218 27.0 23.2-31.1 603 73.0 68.9-76.8
Kentucky 2,063 366 19.0 16.4-21.8 1,697 81.0 78.2-83.6
Louisiana 1,271 320 26.0 23.3-28.9 951 74.0 71.1-76.7
Maine 604 126 21.8 18.3-25.7 478 78.2 74.3-81.7
Maryland 982 169 17.3 14.6-20.5 813 82.7 79.5-85.4
Minnesota 1,039 189 19.2 16.6-22.0 850 80.8 78.0-83.4
Mississippi 1,154 257 23.4 20.7-26.3 897 76.6 73.7-79.3
Montana 1,016 234 23.7 20.4-27.3 782 76.3 72.7-79.6
Nebraska 1,339 270 22.0 19.6-24.7 1,069 78.0 75.3-80.4
New York 1,201 255 22.0 19.3-25.0 946 78.0 75.0-80.7
North Carolina 2,742 613 23.9 21.4-26.7 2,129 76.1 73.3-78.6
North Dakota 834 182 21.2 18.4-24.4 652 78.8 75.6-81.6
Ohio 888 201 22.5 19.3-26.1 687 77.5 73.9-80.7
South Carolina 1,500 267 18.8 16.5-21.3 1,233 81.2 78.7-83.5
Tennessee 705 140 19.2 16.2-22.6 565 80.8 77.4-83.8
Virginia 1,347 263 19.0 16.5-21.9 1,084 81.0 78.1-83.5
West Virginia 1,024 180 18.5 15.9-21.3 844 81.5 78.7-84.1
Puerto Rico 780 259 34.9 30.7-39.4 521 65.1 60.6-69.3

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+ Only participating states or terretories are presented here.

*This question was asked only of respondents who reported taking aspirin regularly.

#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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