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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: Nationwide Data

Cardiovascular Disease

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

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  Total
Respond.#
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
All Participants 26,580 19,925 73.6 72.8-74.5 6,655 26.4 25.5-27.2
Alabama 831 612 73.0 69.4-76.4 219 27.0 23.6-30.6
Alaska 478 336 66.0 59.4-72.0 142 34.0 28.0-40.6
Arkansas 1,081 786 73.7 70.7-76.5 295 26.3 23.5-29.3
Colorado 884 661 74.3 70.9-77.4 223 25.7 22.6-29.1
Connecticut 1,106 841 76.7 73.7-79.4 265 23.3 20.6-26.3
District of Columbia 324 246 73.9 67.3-79.5 78 26.1 20.5-32.7
Georgia 1,700 1,261 72.5 69.5-75.4 439 27.5 24.6-30.5
Hawaii 817 689 83.5 79.9-86.5 128 16.5 13.5-20.1
Kentucky 2,041 1,368 65.3 62.1-68.5 673 34.7 31.5-37.9
Louisiana 1,203 865 71.3 68.3-74.1 338 28.7 25.9-31.7
Maine 566 427 74.8 70.6-78.5 139 25.2 21.5-29.4
Maryland 930 711 74.1 70.3-77.6 219 25.9 22.4-29.7
Minnesota 852 604 70.0 66.5-73.3 248 30.0 26.7-33.5
Mississippi 1,077 820 75.8 72.7-78.5 257 24.2 21.5-27.3
Montana 953 687 70.6 66.6-74.3 266 29.4 25.7-33.4
Nebraska 1,267 954 74.6 71.9-77.2 313 25.4 22.8-28.1
New York 1,125 816 72.8 69.7-75.7 309 27.2 24.3-30.3
North Carolina 2,658 2,176 80.9 78.3-83.2 482 19.1 16.8-21.7
North Dakota 769 555 72.1 68.6-75.5 214 27.9 24.5-31.4
Ohio 827 569 68.6 64.5-72.5 258 31.4 27.5-35.5
South Carolina 1,378 1,017 73.6 70.9-76.2 361 26.4 23.8-29.1
Tennessee 695 532 77.8 74.3-81.0 163 22.2 19.0-25.7
Virginia 1,221 896 72.4 69.1-75.6 325 27.6 24.4-30.9
West Virginia 1,018 889 86.4 83.8-88.6 129 13.6 11.4-16.2
Puerto Rico 779 607 74.0 69.5-78.1 172 26.0 21.9-30.5

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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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