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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes Counties

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%)
North Carolina 15,237 5,755 38.0 37.0-39.1 5,667 37.7 36.6-38.8 3,815 24.3 23.4-25.2
-Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watauga/Wilkes 350 124 38.1 31.6-45.0 125 34.5 28.3-41.4 101 27.4 22.1-33.5
GENDER
Male 124 49 42.6 31.5-54.4 43 32.8 22.7-44.9 32 24.6 16.6-34.8
Female 226 75 34.0 27.3-41.4 82 36.1 29.2-43.6 69 30.0 23.5-37.3
RACE
White 325 114 37.9 31.3-45.0 121 37.0 30.4-44.0 90 25.2 20.0-31.2
Other 24 10 43.0 19.8-69.8 4 15.4 3.3-49.7 10 41.5 20.0-66.8
AGE
18-44 120 43 40.4 29.6-52.3 43 34.0 23.8-46.0 34 25.5 17.5-35.6
45+ 228 80 35.6 29.0-42.7 81 34.8 28.3-41.9 67 29.7 23.3-37.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 159 65 45.8 36.1-55.8 46 24.8 17.6-33.7 48 29.4 21.5-38.9
Some College + 189 58 31.5 23.4-41.0 78 42.6 33.4-52.3 53 25.9 19.1-34.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 233 88 41.5 33.4-50.2 75 30.1 22.5-38.9 70 28.4 21.7-36.2
$50,000+ 80 22 28.0 17.7-41.3 39 49.4 36.7-62.2 19 22.6 14.0-34.3

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^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: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Warren, and Washington.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC): 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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