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BRFSS Survey Results 2003 for Western North Carolina**

Cardiovascular Disease

After you left the hospital following your heart attack or stroke,did you go to any kind of outpatient rehabilitation? This is sometimes called 'rehab'*

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 707 194 31.3 26.3-36.9 513 68.7 63.1-73.7
-Western NC 182 58 37.5 25.6-51.1 124 62.5 48.9-74.4
GENDER
Male 93 38 43.0 26.6-61.1 55 57.0 38.9-73.4
Female 89 20 25.6 15.9-38.5 69 74.4 61.5-84.1
RACE
White 167 54 34.1 23.7-46.3 113 65.9 53.7-76.3
African American 10 3 65.0 20.8-92.9 7 35.0 7.1-79.2
Other Minorities 5 1 29.7 4.4-79.6 4 70.3 20.4-95.6
AGE
18-24 0 0 . . - . 0 . . - .
25-34 3 2 93.2 53.0-99.4 1 6.8 0.6-47.0
35-44 10 3 20.5 5.7-52.4 7 79.5 47.6-94.3
45-54 26 8 36.3 10.4-73.7 18 63.7 26.3-89.6
55-64 38 15 50.1 30.4-69.7 23 49.9 30.3-69.6
65-74 60 18 35.9 19.6-56.3 42 64.1 43.7-80.4
75+ 45 12 25.1 13.2-42.5 33 74.9 57.5-86.8
EDUCATION
Less Than H.S. 55 15 40.3 23.2-60.1 40 59.7 39.9-76.8
H.S. or G.E.D. 55 19 36.1 17.4-60.2 36 63.9 39.8-82.6
Some Post-H.S. 46 14 42.4 16.8-72.8 32 57.6 27.2-83.2
College Graduate 26 10 28.1 12.4-51.8 16 71.9 48.2-87.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $15,000 47 12 38.2 20.2-60.1 35 61.8 39.9-79.8
$15,000- 24,999 32 7 11.7 3.7-31.3 25 88.3 68.7-96.3
$25,000- 34,999 16 5 23.1 7.4-53.2 11 76.9 46.8-92.6
$35,000- 49,999 26 7 56.5 27.4-81.8 19 43.5 18.2-72.6
$50,000-74,999 7 4 40.5 9.8-81.0 3 59.5 19.0-90.2
$75,000+ 7 6 89.4 48.9-98.7 1 10.6 1.3-51.1
COUNTY/REGION**
Buncombe 47 13 32.4 19.0-49.3 34 67.6 50.7-81.0
Guilford 38 11 25.9 13.6-43.8 27 74.1 56.2-86.4
Mecklenburg 32 7 31.0 15.0-53.5 25 69.0 46.5-85.0
Orange 16 2 13.9 3.3-43.2 14 86.1 56.8-96.7
Wake 22 7 35.4 15.0-63.1 15 64.6 36.9-85.0
Chatham/Lee 28 6 22.2 9.5-43.7 22 77.8 56.3-90.5
Nash/Wilson 27 7 18.6 8.5-36.0 20 81.4 64.0-91.5
Craven/Pamlico 32 5 21.0 8.6-42.9 27 79.0 57.1-91.4
Stokes/Surry/Yadkin 47 14 27.7 15.9-43.7 33 72.3 56.3-84.1
Appalachian/Wilkes 36 13 38.5 23.4-56.2 23 61.5 43.8-76.6
Franklin/Gran./Vance 38 9 28.5 15.0-47.3 29 71.5 52.7-85.0
Graham/Swain/Jackson 32 8 24.9 12.3-44.0 24 75.1 56.0-87.7
Hoke/Robeson/Scotland 43 14 36.8 22.7-53.5 29 63.2 46.5-77.3
Bladen/Columbus/Sampson 32 7 19.5 8.6-38.4 25 80.5 61.6-91.4
Northeast NC I 31 7 25.6 11.9-46.6 24 74.4 53.4-88.1
Northeast NC II 50 12 27.6 15.9-43.4 38 72.4 56.6-84.1
Northeastern Partnership 81 19 27.0 17.3-39.6 62 73.0 60.4-82.7
Mountain AHEC 111 33 33.9 23.0-47.0 78 66.1 53.0-77.0
NC REGIONS***
Eastern NC 252 64 28.0 20.8-36.5 188 72.0 63.5-79.2
Piedmont 273 72 31.0 23.8-39.3 201 69.0 60.7-76.2

Due to the small number of respondents to this question, no further breakdowns are available for Western North Carolina**. Please refer to the North Carolina table for statewide breakdowns.

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*This question was asked only of respondents who reported having had a heart attack or stroke.

^Use caution in interpreting percentages with a numerator of less than 20. N = numerator, % = 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.

** Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Northeast NC I and II regions combined.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (AHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

*** Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

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