SCHS Home Search FAQs Guestbook

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics Navigation Bar

2005 BRFSS Survey Results: Chatham/Lee/Moore Counties

Heart Attack and Stroke

Do you think chest pain or discomfort are symptoms of a heart attack?

View results for a demographic group:
Select a different topic:
View results for a different geographical area:
  Total
Respond.^
Yes No Don't know/Not sure
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 15,271 13,943 90.3 89.6-91.0 711 4.9 4.5- 5.4 617 4.8 4.3- 5.3
-Chatham/Lee/Moore 467 423 85.7 79.9-90.1 19 7.7 4.4-13.2 25 6.6 4.0-10.6
GENDER
Male 166 144 83.8 74.7-90.0 13 9.3 4.8-17.1 9 7.0 3.1-14.9
Female 301 279 87.5 79.2-92.9 6 6.2 2.2-16.1 16 6.2 3.6-10.6
RACE
White 387 367 93.5 89.5-96.1 12 4.1 2.2- 7.6 8 2.3 1.0- 5.5
Other 77 53 62.2 46.6-75.6 7 18.5 8.1-36.6 17 19.4 10.8-32.4
AGE
18-44 151 132 80.0 69.1-87.8 8 11.0 5.1-22.2 11 9.0 4.5-16.9
45+ 313 288 90.8 86.0-94.1 11 4.7 2.4- 8.9 14 4.5 2.4- 8.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 204 169 75.0 65.1-82.9 13 13.0 6.9-23.1 22 12.0 7.2-19.4
Some College + 263 254 96.4 92.4-98.3 6 2.4 1.0- 5.8 3 1.2 0.3- 4.8
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 263 235 82.1 73.5-88.3 10 8.4 4.0-16.7 18 9.5 5.4-16.1
$50,000+ 137 132 97.7 94.2-99.1 3 1.7 0.5- 5.3 2 0.6 0.1- 2.4

Back to Heart Attack and 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: 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.

BRFSS Home | Annual Questionnaires | Technical Notes

This page was generated on 16AUG06.

SCHS Home | Search | FAQs | Guestbook