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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: Nationwide Data

Cardiovascular Disease

Why do you take aspirin... To reduce the chance of a heart attack?*

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  Total
Respond.#
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
All Participants 27,845 23,833 85.1 84.4-85.7 4,012 14.9 14.3-15.6
Alabama 857 726 84.4 81.4-87.0 131 15.6 13.0-18.6
Alaska 509 412 76.7 70.7-81.7 97 23.3 18.3-29.3
Arkansas 1,181 1,003 85.0 82.5-87.1 178 15.0 12.9-17.5
Colorado 918 789 85.6 82.7-88.1 129 14.4 11.9-17.3
Connecticut 1,152 1,003 87.7 85.4-89.8 149 12.3 10.2-14.6
District of Columbia 340 297 85.0 79.1-89.5 43 15.0 10.5-20.9
Georgia 1,830 1,569 85.2 82.8-87.4 261 14.8 12.6-17.2
Hawaii 823 702 84.5 80.9-87.4 121 15.5 12.6-19.1
Kentucky 2,046 1,681 79.9 77.0-82.6 365 20.1 17.4-23.0
Louisiana 1,252 1,033 82.3 79.7-84.6 219 17.7 15.4-20.3
Maine 598 510 84.8 81.3-87.7 88 15.2 12.3-18.7
Maryland 964 836 85.8 82.6-88.5 128 14.2 11.5-17.4
Minnesota 1,003 889 88.2 85.7-90.3 114 11.8 9.7-14.3
Mississippi 1,132 959 84.5 82.0-86.7 173 15.5 13.3-18.0
Montana 1,004 853 84.5 81.3-87.3 151 15.5 12.7-18.7
Nebraska 1,321 1,105 82.6 80.1-84.8 216 17.4 15.2-19.9
New York 1,184 999 83.5 80.8-85.9 185 16.5 14.1-19.2
North Carolina 2,708 2,402 86.6 84.2-88.7 306 13.4 11.3-15.8
North Dakota 820 685 83.9 80.9-86.4 135 16.1 13.6-19.1
Ohio 883 749 84.9 81.5-87.8 134 15.1 12.2-18.5
South Carolina 1,486 1,330 89.5 87.6-91.2 156 10.5 8.8-12.4
Tennessee 703 614 87.7 84.8-90.2 89 12.3 9.8-15.2
Virginia 1,331 1,148 86.0 83.5-88.3 183 14.0 11.7-16.5
West Virginia 1,020 928 90.4 88.1-92.2 92 9.6 7.8-11.9
Puerto Rico 780 611 76.0 71.8-79.7 169 24.0 20.3-28.2

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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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