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2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Carteret/Currituck/Craven/Dare/Hyde/Pamlico 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 15,261 13,213 84.0 83.1-84.9 1,103 8.7 8.0- 9.5 945 7.2 6.6- 7.9
-Carteret/Curr./Craven/Dare/Hyde/Paml. 415 369 84.4 77.4-89.5 27 10.9 6.4-18.0 19 4.7 2.6- 8.3
GENDER
Male 163 139 76.9 65.0-85.6 15 17.1 9.3-29.5 9 6.0 2.7-13.0
Female 252 230 92.9 89.0-95.5 12 3.8 2.0- 7.1 10 3.3 1.7- 6.2
RACE
White 341 310 88.7 81.1-93.4 19 9.0 4.6-17.0 12 2.3 1.3- 4.3
Other 72 58 68.2 50.1-82.1 7 17.8 7.2-37.9 7 14.0 5.9-29.6
AGE
18-44 139 120 77.3 64.9-86.3 13 17.4 9.3-30.3 6 5.3 2.1-12.7
45+ 275 248 91.7 87.8-94.5 14 4.1 2.3- 7.1 13 4.2 2.3- 7.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 162 136 75.4 62.5-84.9 15 16.6 8.3-30.4 11 8.1 3.8-16.2
Some College + 253 233 91.3 84.5-95.3 12 6.5 3.0-13.7 8 2.2 1.0- 4.6
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 216 186 75.6 64.1-84.3 17 18.0 9.9-30.4 13 6.4 3.3-12.2
$50,000+ 134 125 95.7 91.5-97.9 7 3.7 1.7- 7.9 2 0.6 0.1- 2.4

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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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